Dogtrot Cabin at Belle Mont Plantation

A dogtrot cabin that would have housed enslaved workers at Belle Mont plantation in Colbert County. This dwelling probably housed two families and likely housed families of sharecroppers after Emancipation.

Woman standing beside a log dogtrot cabin at Belle Mont in Colbert County, with stone chimneys and a shingled roof.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Historic American Building Survey Collection
Woman standing beside a log dogtrot cabin at Belle Mont in Colbert County, with stone chimneys and a shingled roof.