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  1. Robert Milwood Janet Clarke Larry Millwood

  2. Benjamin Pinckney Worthington was born in Kentucky on November 19, 1814. He married Caroline Mitchell of South Carolina in Jefferson County, Alabama. They had eleven children. He owned an 800-acre farm in what is now the Avondale area of Birmingham. The Worthington home was a large, eight room structure with high ceilings, a veranda, and six columns at the front. It was equipped with the first water system in the area supplied by springs later submerged under Rushton Park. A portion of land originally purchased by the Elyton Land Company was sometimes called “Pink Worthington’s frog pond”. After the Civil War B. P. Worthington intended to move his family to South America, but following a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba and a two-year sojourn in Florida he returned to Jefferson County and to his former home. In 1871 he was one of seven people who incorporated the National Bank of Birmingham with a paid-up capital of $50,000. He died on November 19, 1884 and is buried in Birmingham’s Oak Hill Cemetery. (Source: B’ham Public Library)

    This house sat on 6th Avenue South. This photo was taken in 1933 by Alex Bush. Part of the HABS collection by the Library of Congress. The house was torn down in 1953.

  3. It looks like the house from fried green tomatoes?

  4. This is a great house! Love it

  5. Hope they recycled the lumber from the house.

  6. Lived in this house when I was a little fellow from 1940 to 1948. There was three other families that lived there with us. We had two of the first floor rooms on the left side of the looking at the front of the home.

  7. Big house but all I can think about is how COLD it surely was!

  8. Benjamin Pinckney Worthington was born in Kentucky on November 19, 1814. He married Caroline Mitchell of South Carolina in Jefferson County, Alabama. They had eleven children. He owned an 800-acre farm in what is now the Avondale area of Birmingham. The Worthington home was a large, eight room structure with high ceilings, a veranda, and six columns at the front. It was equipped with the first water system in the area supplied by springs later submerged under Rushton Park. A portion of land originally purchased by the Elyton Land Company was sometimes called “Pink Worthington’s frog pond”. After the Civil War B. P. Worthington intended to move his family to South America, but following a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba and a two-year sojourn in Florida he returned to Jefferson County and to his former home. In 1871 he was one of seven people who incorporated the National Bank of Birmingham with a paid-up capital of $50,000. He died on November 19, 1884 and is buried in Birmingham’s Oak Hill Cemetery. (Source: B’ham Public Library)

    This house sat on 6th Avenue South. This photo was taken in 1933 by Alex Bush. Part of the HABS collection by the Library of Congress. The house was torn down in 1953.

  9. I’m related to him. He was brother to my 4th great grandfather. Thanks for sharing.

  10. There’s a large empty lot at 30th and 6th these days. May have been the location of the house. SW corner I think.

  11. That is – was – a beautiful house. Wish it could have been moved to a different location, rather than torn down.

  12. […]  Benjamin Pinckney Worthington House, Sixth Avenue South, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL (Alex Bush, Photographer, March 4, 1937, REAR (SOUTH) ELEVATION, Library of Congress) […]

  13. Has Tuscaloosa style columns, panelled tree trunks.

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