Monroeville, AL Photograph - Meadowbank Farm Located on Highway 84 in a Bend of The Alabama River Twelve Miles from Monroeville, Alabama, Between The Towns of Claiborne and Gosport

Meadowbank Farm located on Highway 84 in a bend of the Alabama River twelve miles from Monroeville, Alabama between the towns of Claiborne and Gosport. The farm has 3,999 acres of land. Meadowbank farm includes four 1854 hune log cabins, a main plantation house built in 1910 and numerous out buildings. There is also a lake and a swamp, thousands of oak and pine trees and farm animals. The farm is owned by Ann Smith Bedsole. In 1978 Ann Bedsole became the first Republican woman ever to be elected to the Alabama House of Representatives. The citizens of Mobile County were not slow in recognizing her worth as a public official and at the next state election, elevated her to the position of Alabama State Senator. She was the first woman ever to fill such a position. While serving in the state senate, she was appointed Chairman of the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee.

Carol M. Highsmith (born 1946) is a photographer, author, and publisher who has photographed all 50 of the United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for 30 years. She specializes in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and whimsical. Highsmith is donating her life ’s work of more than 100,000 images, copyright-free, to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive. Out of 14 million images, the Carol M. Highsmith collection is featured in the top six alongside of Mathew Brady and Dorethea Lange. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.