Glenville, also known as the Jincy P. Glenn House, is a historic house in Eutaw

Eutaw, Alabama

Eutaw is a city in Greene County, Alabama, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 1,878. The city is the county seat of Greene County and was named in honor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas...

, Alabama

Alabama

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. The structure was built in the mid-1840s for Jincy Pride Glenn. She was born in Virginia

Virginia

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 in 1776. Jincy Glenn was the widow of Daniel Glenn of Union County, South Carolina. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 as part of the Antebellum Homes in Eutaw Thematic Resource on April 2, 1982, due to its architectural significance.