Editing Courtland, Alabama (section)

===Courtland Historic District===
{{Main|Courtland Historic District}}

In the early 1990s, more than 100 buildings in Courtland were listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] as the Courtland Historic District.  Most of the buildings in the district date from the 1830s through the 1930s, and architectural styles include [[Federal architecture|Federal]], [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]], [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]], [[Colonial Revival]], and [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]].  The Town Square was part of the town's original 1818-1819 plan.  Many of the commercial buildings facing the square, especially along College Street and Tennessee Street, were built in the 1890s and early 1900s.  The train depot on the south side of the square, now a community center, was built in the late 1880s.  The Old Sherrod Hotel, located at the northwest corner of Tennessee Street and Alabama Street, was built around 1930, and provided housing for early [[Tennessee Valley Authority]] employees.<ref>Robert Gamble, "[https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/efff9624-0505-490d-a5dd-5c20d933273e/ Courtland Historic District]," National Register of Historic Places inventory form, 1991.</ref>

The [[John McMahon House]], a Federal-style home built around 1830, is listed individually on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090321094715/http://www.preserveala.org/pdfs/AHC%20Historical%20Markers.pdf AHC Historical Markers]}} (PDF). Retrieved on 2008-04-03.</ref>  [[Rocky Hill Castle]] was a [[Slavery in the United States|forced-labor]] plantation whose architecturally renowned plantation house was demolished in 1961.<ref name="alcatalog">{{cite book | last =Gamble | first =Robert | year =1987 | title =The Alabama Catalog: A Guide to the Early Architecture of the State | page=253 | publisher =University of Alabama Press | location =University, AL | isbn =0-8173-0148-8 }}</ref><ref name="lostplan">{{cite book |title=Lost Plantations of the South |url=https://archive.org/details/lostplantationss00matr |url-access=limited |last=Matrana |first=Marc R. |year=2009 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, MS |isbn=978-1-57806-942-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/lostplantationss00matr/page/n330 112]–117 }}</ref>