Selma, Alabama Historic Homes


(April 2010) Enlarge Middleton House (Cahawba Home): Middleton House is a pre-Civil War structure that is said to have had the brick portions of the home moved to Selma from Cahawba prior to 1850 in sections by oxcart. Mr. Middleton and his two sisters moved to Selma from Cahawba and brought their house with them Enlarged Views: Hit Back Button to return		(April 2010) Enlarge Platt-Lewis House: Italianate in design, this house was built around 1849 and purchased by Charles Lewis in 1856. According to history, the home was saved from burning and looting during the Battle of Selma because Mr. Lewis was a Mason; it was saved by a fellow Mason, a Yankee Lieutenant


(April 2010) Enlarge Devotie Home: This home was at one time the home of Mr. Leslie Devotie, a Baptist minister, who drowned in Mobile Bay while boarding a Confederate vessel and became the first casualty of the War Between the States. It is said that the first Confederate flag was used to drape his coffin. Mr. Devotie was one of the founders of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The house is presently used as offices for a local accounting firm		(April 2010) Enlarge Arsenal Place: This entire city block is known as the Arsenal Place because the Confederate arsenal was located here during the War Between the States. The large arsenal and foundry employed some 10,000 people and was part of the reason for the Battle of Selma during the war. This was the only site in the lower south capable of making the Brooke rifle for the Confederate Navy and also produced the Confederate ironclads CSS Tennessee, CSS Huntsville, and CSS Tuscaloosa as well as partially outfitting the CSS Nashville. The Selma foundry was located on the grounds of the present Old Depot Museum several blocks away from Arsenal Place


(April 2010) Enlarge Arsenal Place		(April 2010) Enlarge Arsenal Place