Saunders Hall Goode Mansion, about one mile east, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on 1 Oct 1974. Built by Turner Saunders (1782-1853) on property purchased 9 April 1833, the house may have an earlier construction date. The son of Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Saunders and Ann Turner, Saunders was born in Virginia and moved with his first wife, Francis Dunn, to Lawrence County in 1821. After her death in 1824, he married Henrietta Millwater on 1 July 1826. Considered an excellent example of Palladian design, the two-story mansion with a brick basement has been noted as resembling a Greek temple. A noted Methodist preacher, Saunders was elected in 1830 as the first president of LaGrange College, about 10 miles to the southwest. On 28 Apr 1863, Gen. G.M. Dodge's Union soldiers burned the school, the first state charted Alabama college. On 12 Feb 1844, Saunders sold the house to Freeman Goode and moved to Aberdeen, Mississippi, where he died in 1853. Later owners included the Hall and Skeggs families. Saunders's son, James E. Saunders, author of the first major history of Lawrence County, was an aide and personal friend of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest. James E. built a plantation house about 1860 known as Rocky Hill Castle, about 4 miles south of this site.