Fendall Hall
Barbour St., Eufaula, ALFendall Hall is one of Alabama's best examples of antebellum town mansions with considerable Italian influence in its--design".
The house was built during an era of affluence and statewide influence for Eufaula. Cotton was king, and the rich Eufaula region processed thousands of bales yearly and shipped them down the Chattahoochee River to the Gulf of Mexico and points throughout the world. The influential Eufaula Regency was the second most powerful group in the state. Together with Montgomerians they led in Alabama's secession from the Union in 1861.
Fendall Hall was built by Edward Brown Young and Ann Fendall Beall Young and completed in 1854. The timber for the house was cut by his sawmill from trees on his land and allowed to season for two years before the house was built. Two rooms at the back on each side were completed first and the family lived there while the rest of the house was being completed. The house was used as a hospital for Confederate wounded when the regular hospital was filled. E. B. Young was born in New York in 1802, and his parents moved first to Twiggs County, Georgia, and then into Creek Country in 1837. His brother William Young settled in Columbus, Georgia, and founded the Eagle and Phenix Mills.
E. B. Young settled in Eufaula where he built the first toll bridge across the Chattahoochee. This bridge was washed away by flood in 1840. It is told that his hair turned completely white the night of the flood. He was in the hardware business at one time and later established the E. B. Young and Sons Bank on the site of the present Elmore's store, at the corner of Eufaula and Broad Streets. This later became the Irwinton Bridge Bank and then the Eufaula National, Bank. It continued in business until 1901.
Ann Fendall Beall's parents came from Maryland to Irwington, Georgia, near Augusta. The Young's daughter Anna married Captain Stouten Herbert Dent and they purchased Fendall Hall from her parents in the 1880's. Captain Dent came to Eufaula from Maryland to teach school while reading law; he later practiced law. During the War Between the States, he formed a company known as Dent's Artillery.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
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