Housed in renovated Southern Railway Terminal. Contains artifacts, documents, photographs, 1800s furnishings and farm implements, Civil War collection relating to 1862 28th Alabama Regiment, antique telephone display, library.
Sadler Family Pioneer Home
Street address:
5262 Eastern Valley Rd.
Bessemer, AL 35021
Phone:
205-426-1633
Schedule:
Open by appt. for tours and special occasions.
Mailing:
P.O. Box 184
Bessemer, AL 35021
Admission:
Unknown
GPS:
33.316528, -87.013762
Preserved and operated by the West Jefferson County Historical Society.
The construction of the Sadler Plantation House was begun between 1818 and 1820 by John Loveless, a settler from South Carolina. After his death, his widow sold the two story clapboard-covered log cabin to Isaac Wellington Sadler. Mr. Sadler remodeled the structure and doubled its size around 1830. By 1860, the Sadler House was situated on an expansive plantation of 2,800 acres. During the Civil War, the house was spared by the Union troops known as Wilson's Raiders as they passed by after destroying the nearby Tannehill Furnaces.
Isaac Sadler was one of the founders of Pleasant Hill Academy and Pleasant Hill Methodist Church, as well as a trustee of Old Salem School. He and his wife, Martha Prude, had nine children. One son, David Scott Sadler was killed on a battlefield near Dalton, Georgia at age seventeen while serving with the Confederate Army.
The towering pecan tree in the backyard of the Sadler House was said to have been planted in 1852, when their daughter Alice Eulalia Sadler was born.
The Sadler House was donated to the West Jefferson County Historical Society in the 1970's by Mrs. Freddie S. Lipscomb, a Sadler family descendant.
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