Magee Farm

{{short description|Historic house in Alabama, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Jacob Magee House | nrhp_type = | image = Jacob Magee House 02.JPG | caption = Jacob Magee House in 2010 | nearest_city = Kushla, Alabama | coordinates = {{coord|30|49|20|N|88|9|48|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Alabama#USA | built = 1848<ref name="ahcreport">{{cite journal|date=July–August 2010 |title=Places in Peril |journal=Preservation Report |publisher=Alabama Historical Commission |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=8 |url=http://preserveala.org/pdfs/NEWSLETTER/JULY-AUG%202010%20WEB.pdf |accessdate=3 July 2010 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006193329/http://preserveala.org/pdfs/NEWSLETTER/JULY-AUG%202010%20WEB.pdf |archivedate=6 October 2010 }}</ref> | architecture = Gulf Coast Cottage | added = February 12, 1988 | area = less than one acre | refnum = 88000112<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref> }}

The '''Magee Farm''', also known as the '''Jacob Magee House''', is a historic residence in Kushla, Alabama, United States. Built by Jacob Magee in 1848, the {{frac|1|1|2}}-story wood-frame structure is an example of the Gulf Coast Cottage style. The house is best known as the site of preliminary arrangements for the surrender of the last Confederate States Army east of the Mississippi River. Confederate General Richard Taylor negotiated a ceasefire with Union General Edward Canby at the house on April 29, 1865. Taylor's forces, comprising 47,000 Confederate troops serving in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, were the last remaining Confederate force east of the Mississippi River.<ref name="ahcreport"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Spanish Fort park director offers to save Confederate landmark by moving it |author=Brendan Kirby |newspaper=Press-Register |date=9 February 2010 |url=http://blog.al.com/live/2010/02/spanish_fort_park_director_off.html }}</ref> The Magee Farm was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1988.<ref name="nris"/> In 2004, partially through the efforts of the Civil War Trust, a division of the American Battlefield Trust, which helped save 12.6 acres of the farm, the house was opened as a museum. It ceased operation as a museum in 2010, due to a lack of public support and declining revenues, and was listed for sale. It was then listed on the Alabama Historical Commission's Places in Peril listing for 2010.<ref name="ahcreport"/><ref>{{cite web|author1=Michelle Matthews|title=Ben George surrenders, sells off most of the antiques from historic Magee Farm|url=http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2014/09/ben_georges_own_personal_last.html|publisher=AL.com|accessdate=19 June 2015|date=September 10, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author1=Ellis Metz|title=Losing the Last Appomattox|url=http://www.mobilebaymag.com/Mobile-Bay/March-2013/Losing-the-Last-Appomattox/|publisher=Mobile Bay Magazine|accessdate=19 June 2015|date=March 2013}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.battlefields.org/visit/battlefields/magee-house|title=Magee House|website=American Battlefield Trust|access-date=June 19, 2023}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Magee Farm}} Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama Category:Houses completed in 1848 Category:National Register of Historic Places in Mobile County, Alabama Category:Houses in Mobile County, Alabama Category:Gulf Coast cottage architecture in Alabama Category:Alabama in the American Civil War Category:Defunct museums in Alabama