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Mount Pleasant Grille & Phosphate Museum February 2022 The First Presbyterian Church in Mount Pleasant, TN Mount Pleasant is a city in Maury County , Tennessee , United States. Mount Pleasant was the birthplace of 19th-century writer and humorist Samuel R. Watkins and formerly titled "The Phosphate Capital of the World."
Rattle and Snap (also called the Polk-Granberry House [3] and once known as Oakwood Hall) 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.
A detached kitchen still exists on the property, built prior to 1826 and surviving the 1857 fire; according to local lore it is the oldest brick building in the Mount Pleasant area. [2] The house and property was bought by private owners in 2018.
Spans U.S. Route 43 between Columbia and Mount Pleasant 35°34′24″N 87°08′18″W / 35.573333°N 87.138333°W / 35.573333; -87.138333 ( Ashwood Rural Historic Columbia
The house was built in the early 1830s for William Watkins, a Virginia native. [2] It was designed in the Federal architectural style. [2] Watkins was the owner of six African slaves in 1836. [2]
The Tennessee Historical Commission, which manages the state's participation in the National Register program, reports that 80 percent of the state's area has been surveyed for historic buildings. Surveys for archaeological sites have been less extensive; coverage is estimated less than 5 percent of the state.
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Clifton Place is an historic plantation mansion located southwest of the city of Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee on the Mt. Pleasant Pike (Columbia highway). [2] Master builder Nathan Vaught started construction in 1838, and the mansion and other buildings were completed in 1839, for Gideon Johnson Pillow (1806-1877) on land inherited from Gideon Pillow.