The Leonidas Polk Homes:

"The South has always had a native architecture, adapted from classical models into something distinctly Southern; and nothing more clearly and satisfactorily belongs where it is, or better express the beauty and stability of an orderd life, than its old country homes, with their pillared porches, their simplicity of design, their sheltering groves, their walks bordered with boxwoood shrubs." -Donald Davidson, "A Mirror for Artists," I'LL TAKE MY STAND: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, 1930, 1962, 1977

Home of parents Col. William and Sarah Hawkins Polk, Raleigh, North Carolina (resident).
 

Hamilton Place, home of oldest brother and sister-in-law, Lucius Junius and Mary Ann Eastin Polk, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee (resident).

"...till 1834- this time was spent at Lucius' house- he & his admirable wife did everything they could to make us happy- & I can never recall it but with gratitude." -Frances Ann Devereux Polk, "Leonidas Polk, A Memoir Written by His Wife for Their Children," undated

Lucius J. Polk.


Ashwood Hall, Ashwood Plantation, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee.



 

"Leighton," Leighton Plantation, Thibodaux, Louisiana; undated.

 

ON THIS SITE STOOD
LEIGHTON
PLANTATION HOME
OF
LEONIDAS POLK
FIRST BISHOP OF LOUISIANA
1841 - 1864
LIEUTENTANT GENERAL C.S.A.
1861 - 1864

CHRISTIAN + PATRIOT + LEADER

ERECTED BY

THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
DIOCESE OF LOUISIANA


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Correction: Lieutenant General C.S.A. should read "1862 - 1864,"
per his elevation in rank from Major-General after the Battle of Perryville.)





Magazine Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

 Bishop Polk's Cottage, Beersheba, Springs, Tennessee.

 

Tennessee Historical Commission marker 2E 25, Tennessee Highway 56-

BEERSHEBA INN

1/4 mile S. E. In 1837 several log
structures were built and later
joined together. Later, buildings of
handmade brick were added.
Enlargement to present form was
made by Col. John Armfield in 1857.
In antebellum days the courtyard
was the scene of varied diversions
and activities, including holding of
missionary services by Episcopal
Bishops Otey and Polk.



Bishop Polk's Cottage, Sewanee, Tennessee (attacked April 12, 1861), family nomads from Nashville to Ashville, etc.; Bishop-General Polk's Headquarters, Western Theatre, War of 1861 - 1865, including the Gosling House, Shelbyville, Tennessee, May-June, 1863; Heaven Above.

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Other Polk Family Homes:

 under construction



Polk-Cochran Place, built 1832 by Gen. Thomas Polk, brother of Leonidas Polk and relative of President Polk. 9 Craft St, Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi. (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msgenweb/plantations/marshall/marshall.htm; viewed 7/25/05; photo courtesy of American Memory Project, Library of Congress.)

 

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