Click image to enlarge. The Malbis Plantation Historic District encompasses an expansive agricultural complex that is threatened by insensitive commercial development. The Historic District is located less than a half-mile south of I-10 on AL 181 at US 90. Malbis Plantation is on the Alabama and the National Register. The plantation encompasses one of the largest and best preserved collections of agricultural buildings in Baldwin County, and perhaps in the state. Twenty-six buildings remain from this commercial complex, with the architectural crown jewels being the Big House (1906), the Tampary-Simmons House (1928), the Greek Orthodox Malbis Memorial Church (1965), and the Malbis Cemetery located south of the church. Malbis Plantation is unique to Greek-Amercian history, serving as one few examples of Greeks choosing to establish themselves in an agrarian community in the south. Locally, Malbis Plantation is an example of a common settlement pattern among immigrants pursuing agriculture and livestock in central and south Baldwin County in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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