PATRON – See beautiful [photographs] of Benjamin P. Worthington home, pioneer and a founder of Birmingham, Alabama

Benjamin Pinckney Worthington was born in Kentucky on November 19, 1814. He married Caroline Mitchell of South Carolina in Jefferson County, Alabama. They had eleven children. He owned an 800-acre farm in what is now the Avondale area of Birmingham. The Worthington home was a large, eight room structure with high ceilings, a veranda, and six columns at the front. It was equipped with the first water system in the area supplied by springs later submerged under Rushton Park. A portion of land originally purchased by the Elyton Land Company was sometimes called “Pink Worthington’s frog pond”. After the Civil War B. P. Worthington intended to move his family to South America, but following a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba and a two-year sojourn in Florida he returned to Jefferson County and to his former home. In 1871 he was one of seven people who incorporated the National Bank of Birmingham with a paid-up capital of $50,000. He died on November 19, 1884 and is buried in Birmingham’s Oak Hill Cemetery. (Source: B’ham Public Library)

This house sat on 6th Avenue South. This photo was taken in 1933 by Alex Bush. Part of the HABS collection by the Library of Congress. The house was torn down in 1953.

This is a great house! Love it

Lived in this house when I was a little fellow from 1940 to 1948. There was three other families that lived there with us. We had two of the first floor rooms on the left side of the looking at the front of the home.

Benjamin Pinckney Worthington was born in Kentucky on November 19, 1814. He married Caroline Mitchell of South Carolina in Jefferson County, Alabama. They had eleven children. He owned an 800-acre farm in what is now the Avondale area of Birmingham. The Worthington home was a large, eight room structure with high ceilings, a veranda, and six columns at the front. It was equipped with the first water system in the area supplied by springs later submerged under Rushton Park. A portion of land originally purchased by the Elyton Land Company was sometimes called “Pink Worthington’s frog pond”. After the Civil War B. P. Worthington intended to move his family to South America, but following a shipwreck off the coast of Cuba and a two-year sojourn in Florida he returned to Jefferson County and to his former home. In 1871 he was one of seven people who incorporated the National Bank of Birmingham with a paid-up capital of $50,000. He died on November 19, 1884 and is buried in Birmingham’s Oak Hill Cemetery. (Source: B’ham Public Library)

This house sat on 6th Avenue South. This photo was taken in 1933 by Alex Bush. Part of the HABS collection by the Library of Congress. The house was torn down in 1953.

There’s a large empty lot at 30th and 6th these days. May have been the location of the house. SW corner I think.

David McKeehan

Has Tuscaloosa style columns, panelled tree trunks.