[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1994, as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.

[1] Roseland Plantation originally was the home of "Judge" James Harris Fitts and his wife Rebecca Emily Alston - both of them were born in Warren County NC.

The ninth child, named James Harris Fitts (married to Mary Elizabeth Burges) matured to Tuscaloosa where he founded J.H.

James Fitts (the father) had established Roseland as a 1,200-acre (490 ha) plantation in the Canebrake region of Marengo County during the late 1820s, but was murdered by a discharged overseer on July 16, 1832.

[3] The main house and most of the outbuildings have been demolished by neglect, but the largely undisturbed site remains important for archaeological reasons.