Rattle and Snap
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Rattle and Snap
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Rattle and Snap in 1971
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| Nearest city | Columbia, Tennessee |
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| Built | 1845 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 71000825 |
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| Added to NRHP | November 11, 1971 |
| Designated NHL | November 11, 1971 |
Rattle and Snap (also called Polk-Granberry House) is a Greek Revival mansion in Maury County, Tennessee.
It was built in 1845 by George Washington Polk (1817-1892), one of the sons of Colonel William Polk and a relative of President James K. Polk. His father was a North Carolina native and Revolutionary War officer who was appointed surveyor-general of the Middle District of Tennessee in 1784. The plantation originally stood on 5,648 acres.
Rattle and Snap was built with slave labor and is the largest, most extravagant mansion in Maury County. The mansion is made of limestone and brick, surrounded by ten columns on the exterior, and standing two and a half stories tall. George Polk and his family lived in this mansion for fifteen years.
During the American Civil War, many plantations and mansions in the South were either looted or burned by Union soldiers. Rattle and Snap survived. After the war, the Polk family went bankrupt and could not afford the land or the mansion; Rattle and Snap was sold to Joseph John Granbery in 1867. The Granberys lived in the mansion for over fifty years.
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'.
It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
It is located on Andrew Jackson Highway, Tennessee State Route 243, near Columbia.
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