Dry Fork Plantation
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- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-137, "Dry Forks Plantation, County Road 12, Camden, Wilcox County, AL", 19 photos
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- National Register of Historic Places in Wilcox County, Alabama
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama
- Houses completed in 1834
- Federal architecture in Alabama
- Plantation houses in Alabama
- Houses in Wilcox County, Alabama
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Alabama