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Major Robert Farmar Plantation - 29 |
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Here on the banks of the Tensaw River--named for the Tensa Indian tribe whose principal village was located at this place--Major Robert Farmar developed a plantation c. 1772. Farmar was one of the most prominent and controversial Alabamians of the British period, being commander of the regiments at Mobile from 1763-1765. He resigned his commission in 1768 and was elected to every Commons House of Assembly for the District of West Florida from 1769 until his death in 1778. Artist-Naturalist, William Bartram, visited Farmar here in 1775 and recorded eloquently and well the plant life of the area. Farmar's plantation encompassed what is now the town of Stockton. Location: Baldwin County Stockton
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Alabama 