In a message dated 1/4/02 12:56:58 PM Central Standard Time, loosechips@aol.com writes: > From: loosechips@aol.com > Sender: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > To: ALLOWNDE-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Dickson? > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JS.2ADE/696 > > Message Board Post: > > In 1999 Vanity Fair magazine did a photo shoot of Natalie Portman at > Dicksonia Plantation in Lowndesboro Alabama. > Does anyone know something about Dicksonia Plantation (who the original > owners were, etc, is it still in that family)? > Thank you. > Nancy W. > > > > Nancy W.: > "Dicksonia" is in Lowndesboro, Lowndes Co, AL. > If you wish to read something about present/previous owners, go to > > http://www.Montgomeryadvertiser.com > > Click on "Obituaries" on the left side > Then go to 1/04/02 (today's listings) > and you will see the obituary of Robert Stiles Dickson, Jr. > The notice states that visitation will be held at "Dicksonia" > > in January, 2001, says that Dicksonia was bought in 1901 by Robert Stiles Dickson from Shem Arthur Tyson, and burned in 1939. After begin rebuilt with the same floor plan (with outside Doric Columns) it burned again in 1964 and "the family decided not to rebuild it." Rae V. Calvert CR831@aol.com