If you want to get an idea of what plantation life was like you can visit the Moore-Webb-Holmes Plantation, one of Alabama’s last active plantations. It has been in the same family since the early 1800's. There are structures here which capture the essence of the original buildings such as the log seed house used with the first cotton gin, the second cotton gin, a carriage house, a smoke house, a chicken coop, a potato house with a pit for the storage of vegetables, lard, and sausage, the plantation store with its pot-bellied stove. The role of the African American is also in evidence at several Black Heritage sites such as the family home of Dr. Martin Luther King's wife, the gravesite of Albert Turner, Sr. a leader in the civil rights movement of the sixties and the gravesite of "Harry the Slave" a servant of the president of Howard College who gave his life saving students in an 1854 dormitory fire on the Howard campus.