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Rattle and Snap
Rattle and Snap in 1971
Rattle and Snap is located in Tennessee
Rattle and Snap
Nearest cityColumbia, Tennessee
Built1845
Architectural styleGreek Revival
NRHP reference No.71000825
Significant dates
Added to NRHPNovember 11, 1971[1]
Designated NHLNovember 11, 1971[2]

Rattle and Snap is a Greek Revival mansion near Columbia, Tennessee.

It was built in 1845 by George W. Polk, a relative of president James K. Polk and the son of William Polk. William was a North Carolina native who was appointed surveyor-general of the Middle District of Tennessee in 1784. The plantation originally stood on 5,648 acres.[3]

Rattle and Snap was built from slave labor and is the largest, most extravagant mansion in Maury County, Tennessee.[4] The mansion is made of limestone and brick, surrounded by ten columns on the exterior, and standing two and a half stories tall.[5] George Polk and his family lived in this mansion for fifteen years. During the American Civil War, most plantations and mansions in the south, were either looted or burned by Union soldiers. Rattle and Snap survived. At the end of the war the Polk family went bankrupt and could not afford the land or mansion, and Rattle and Snap was sold to Joseph John Granbery in 1867. The Granberys lived in the mansion for over fifty years.[6][7]

It is said to have been given its name from the fact that the land on which it was built was won from the Governor of North Carolina in a game of chance called 'Rattle and Snap'.[8]

It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.[2][9]

It is located on Andrew Jackson Highway, Tennessee State Route 243, near Columbia.[8]

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Rattle and Snap". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-03-02.
  3. ^ "Rattle & Snap Plantation | Nashville Historic Homes". Nashville Historic Homes. The Perry Property Group. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Rattle and Snap Papers." Albert Gore Research Center.
  5. ^ Evans, Blanche. "THE STORY OF RATTLE AND SNAP: HOW TOO MUCH MONEY SAVED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANTATION HOME IN THE SOUTH." The Story of Rattle and Snap. Realty Times, 2007. Web.
  6. ^ William R Polk, Polk's Folly: An American Family History, First Anchors Book Edition (New York: Anchor Books, 2001), xxiv; digital image, William R Polk, Family Search (familysearch.org )
  7. ^ "Rattle and Snap | Entries | Tennessee Encyclopedia". tennesseeencyclopedia.net. Retrieved 2015-10-02.
  8. ^ a b Rattle and Snap Plantation website
  9. ^ W. Brown Morton III (August 19, 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Rattle and Snap" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) and Template:PDFlink
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