Ashwood Hall

Ashwood Hall
Ashwood Hall
General information
Status	Demolished
Coordinates	35°34′23″N 87°08′13″W / 35.57294°N 87.13703°W
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 Van Leer Rebecca was a heiress to an iron fortune and a member of the Van Leer family. She had married one of his brothers, Andrew Jackson Polk, in 1846.The mansion was sold for US$35,000.^[1] Andrew and his wife spent another US$35,000 on expansions and refurbishments.^[1] Their children, Van Leer Polk and Antoinette Van Leer Polk, grew up at the mansion.^[1]

On July 5, 1861, at the outset of the American Civil War, 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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Garrett, Jill K. (Spring 1970). "St. John's Church, Ashwood". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 29 (1): 3–23. JSTOR 42623126.
^ ^a ^b 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
^ ^a ^b "Valorous Acts of American Women in War: A Few Instances of Personal Heroism at the Front". The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. June 3, 1917. p. 2. Retrieved July 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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[garrett-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Garrett, Jill K. (Spring 1970). "St. John's Church, Ashwood". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 29 (1): 3–23. JSTOR 42623126.

[aguide-2] Tennessee: A Guide to the State, US History Publishers: Federal Writers' Project, 1949, p. 389

[architectureintennessee-3] James Patrick, Architecture in Tennessee, 1768-1897, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1990, p. 111

[4] William Bruce Turner, History of Maury County, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee: The Parthenon Press, 1955, p. 376

[valorous-5] "Valorous Acts of American Women in War: A Few Instances of Personal Heroism at the Front". The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. June 3, 1917. p. 2. Retrieved July 10, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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