George Washington Polk

  • American

George Washington Polk was a 19th-century cotton planter and a member of the Tennessee branch of the Polk gentry. The youngest son of Revolutionary War veteran Colonel William Polk and Sally Hawkins Polk, he was also a first cousin of US President James K Polk. He was best known as the man who commissioned and lived in the Rattle and Snap plantation at Ashwood, Tennessee. His brother, State Senator Lucius Junius Polk, built nearby Hamilton Place, while another brother, Leonidas Polk, became the "Fighting Bishop" and a Confederate general. George's son, Isaac Hilliard Polk, married into two influential California families, extending the Polk lineage westward. - AsNotedIn

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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1843/00/00 Construction begins on a two-and-a-half-story brick mansion for George Washington Polk and his growing family on land inherited from his father. Home Rattle and Snap Mount Pleasant, TN
1867/00/00 After the Civil War shattered the plantation economy and freed the enslaved labor force, George W Polk's fortune collapses. Facing bankruptcy, he sells Rattle and Snap to Joseph John Granbery. Home Rattle and Snap Mount Pleasant, TN
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