Samuel R. Pitts Plantation
The Samuel R. Pitts Plantation, also known as the Greenwood Plantation or the William J. Benton House, is a historic house on a plantation in Pittsview, Alabama, United States.
History
The house was built in 1846 for Dr. John Benson Henry. It was later purchased by Samuel Eberharts.The house was purchased by Samuel Rutherford Pitts in 1874. After he died, his brother Henry Bragg Pitts, moved into the house with his family, and it was later inherited by his daughter Evelyn, who lived there with her husband Richard Malcolm Mitchell. After her husband died in the 1930s, Evelyn lived in the house with her three unmarried sisters; they were joined by their brother in 1961.
The house was purchased by William R. Benson Sr. in 1989.