Ashwood Hall
| Ashwood Hall | |
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| File:Ashwood Hall facade1.jpg | |
| General information | |
| Status | Demolished |
| Client | Leonidas Polk |
Ashwood Hall was a Southern plantation in Maury County, Tennessee.
Location
The plantation was located in Ashwood, a small town near Columbia in Maury County, Tennessee.
History
The land belonged to Colonel William Polk.[1] The mansion was built for one of his sons, Bishop Leonidas Polk, from 1833 to 1837.[1][2] Opposite the mansion, Leonidas Polk built St. John's Episcopal Church from 1839 to 1842.[1][3]
In 1847, Leonidas Polk sold the mansion to Rebecca Vanleer, an heiress to an iron fortune, who had married one of his brothers, Andrew Jackson Polk, in 1846, for US$35,000.[1] Andrew and his wife spent another US$35,000 on expansions and refurbishments.[1] Their son Vanleer Polk and their daughter Antoinette Polk grew up at the mansion.[1]
On July 5, 1861, at the outset of the American Civil War of 1861-1865, Andrew Jackson Polk, who was elected Captain,[4] organized the Maury County Braves in a grove on the grounds of Ashwood Hall.[1]
In 1862, Antoinette Polk saved Confederate personnel stationed at Ashwood Hall by warning them that Northern forces were coming their way.[5] As a result, she became known as a "Southern heroine."[5]
It burned down in 1874.[2]
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tennessee: A Guide to the State, US History Publishers: Federal Writers' Project, 1949, p. 389
- ↑ James Patrick, Architecture in Tennessee, 1768-1897, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1990, p. 111
- ↑ William Bruce Turner, History of Maury County, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee: The Parthenon Press, 1955, p. 376
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