Ashwood, Tennessee | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| County | Maury |
Ashwood is an unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, in the United States. [1] Most of the community has been annexed by the city of Mount Pleasant.
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Ashwood, Tennessee | |
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| Country | United States |
| State | Tennessee |
| County | Maury |
Ashwood is an unincorporated community in Maury County, Tennessee, in the United States. [1] Most of the community has been annexed by the city of Mount Pleasant.
It is located six miles southwest of Columbia, Tennessee. [2]
Ashwood Hall, Bishop Leonidas Polk's plantation house, was built in the community in 1833–1837. [3] Another mansion, Pine Hill, was built here in 1838. [4] St. John's Episcopal Church, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built from 1839 to 1842. [5]
A post office called Ashwood was established in 1841. [6] The community derives its name from the Ashwood Hall plantation. [7] In the 1840s, the community included a "gristmill, hemp factory, sawmill, and other Polk enterprises." [2]
The post office closed down in 1956. [6]
Maury County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee, in the Middle Tennessee region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 100,974. Its county seat is Columbia. Maury County is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN metropolitan statistical area.
Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, its population was 30,346. Its county seat is Pulaski.
Columbia is a city in and the county seat of Maury County, Tennessee. The population was 41,690 as of the 2020 United States census. Columbia is included in the Nashville metropolitan area.
Sevierville is a city in and the county seat of Sevier County, Tennessee, United States, located in eastern Tennessee. The population was 17,889 at the 2020 United States Census.
Lieutenant-General Leonidas Polk was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and founder of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America, which separated from the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. He was a planter in Maury County, Tennessee, and a second cousin of President James K. Polk. He resigned his ecclesiastical position to become a major-general in the Confederate States Army, when he was called "Sewanee's Fighting Bishop". His official portrait at the University of the South depicts him as a bishop with his army uniform hanging nearby. He is often erroneously referred to as "Leonidas K. Polk," but he had no middle name and never signed any documents as such.
James Hervey Otey, Christian educator, author, and the first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, having established the Anglican church in the state, including its first parish churches and what became the University of the South.
The Zion Presbyterian Church is a historic building in Maury County, Tennessee. The church was built between 1847 and 1849 of brick in the Greek Revival style. President James K. Polk attended a school conducted by the church. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 13, 1972.
Lyles or Lyles Station is an unincorporated community in Patoka Township, Gibson County, Indiana. The community dates from 1849, although its early settlers first arrived in the 1830s, and it was formally named Lyles Station in 1886 to honor Joshua Lyles, a free African American who migrated with his family from Tennessee to Indiana around 1837. Lyles Station is one of Indiana's early black rural settlements and the only one remaining. The rural settlement reached its peak in the years between 1880 and 1912, when major structures in the community included the railroad depot, a post office, a lumber mill, two general stores, two churches, and a school. By the turn of the twentieth century, Lyles Station had fifty-five homes, with a population of more than 800 people. The farming community never fully recovered from the Great Flood of 1913, which destroyed much of the town. Most of its residents left for economic reasons, seeking opportunities for higher paying jobs and additional education in larger cities. By 1997 approximately fifteen families remained at Lyles Station, nearly all of them descended from the original settlers.
Rattle and Snap is a plantation estate at 1522 North Main Street in Mount Pleasant, Tennessee. The centerpiece of the estate is a mid-1840s mansion that is one of grandest expressions of the Greek Revival in Tennessee. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its architecture, and for its association with the Polk family, once one of eastern Tennessee's largest landowners. The house is privately owned, but may be viewed by appointment.
St. John's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Ashwood, Maury County, Tennessee, United States. Built from 1839 to 1842 by Bishop Leonidas Polk, it was an active church in the Antebellum South. It was ransacked and later used as a hospital for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Services resumed after the war, but they were discontinued due to low attendance in 1915. It is now closed, except for an annual pilgrimage.
St. Peter's Episcopal Church is a historic church located at 311 W. 7th Street in Columbia, Tennessee.
Nathan Vaught was a builder in Tennessee who was responsible for several noteworthy buildings.
Hamilton Place is an antebellum plantation house in Maury County, Tennessee, near Columbia.
Ashwood Hall was a Southern plantation in Maury County, Tennessee.
Lucius Junius Polk (1802–1870) was an American politician and planter from Tennessee.
VanLeer Polk was an American politician and diplomat from Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee Senate as a representative for Maury County in the 1890s. He was appointed Consul-General in Calcutta, India, and was one of six representatives of the United States at the 1906 Pan-American Conference. He was a member of the influential Van Leer family.
Antoinette Van Leer Polk, Baroness de Charette was an American Southern belle in the Antebellum South and French aristocrat in the Gilded Age. She was born into the planter elite, the great-niece of the 11th President of the United States James K. Polk and a member of the influential Van Leer family through her mother. She was an heiress to plantations in Tennessee and a "Southern heroine" who warned Confederate soldiers of advancing Union troops during the American Civil War. After the war, she moved to Europe, where she took to foxhunting in the Roman Campagna of Italy and the English countryside, and later became a baroness and socialite in Paris and Brittany.
Skipwith Hall, also known as Skipwith Place, Oakwood Farm, Skipwith Harlan Hill, and Oakwood Hall, is a former plantation and plantation house located in Maury County, Tennessee. It was initially built by Edward Brinley Littlefield and Cornelia Lott Skipwith as their residence.
Pine Hill is a historic mansion in Ashwood, Tennessee, U.S.. It was built in 1839 for Samuel Henry Armstrong, a wheat, corn and tobacco farmer. It was purchased by the Dixon family in 1869.
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