The University of Arkansas at Monticello held its open house of the Taylor Log House at the Hollywood Plantation in Tillar, AR as a part of it homecoming festivities Wednesday, October 13, 2021.
The Taylor Log House and site features a 1846 two-story dog trot house and rebuilt kitchen and servant quarters.
The site is not open to the public. The site was donated to UAM in 2012 by John Hancock of El Campo, Texas for historical research and interpretation.
The plantation has 10,000 acres with 83 enslaved laborers prior to the Civil War.
It was occupied until 1940.
The UAM Research Station is conducting archaeological research at the plantation in Drew County to aid architects and historians in the restoration of the dog trot house and grounds to look for the locations of other structures and clean up and map a grave yard.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic places in 1995 and is the oldest dog trot cabin in Arkansas. They are working to restore the location to 1840s and 1880s conditions.
