William H. Griffitts House
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William H. Griffitts House
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| Nearest city | Greenback, Tennessee |
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| Coordinates | 35°40′25″N 84°13′39″W / 35.6737°N 84.2275°WCoordinates: 35°40′25″N 84°13′39″W / 35.6737°N 84.2275°W |
| Area | 10.5 acres (4.2 ha) |
| Built | 1854 |
| Architectural style | East Tennessee vernacular |
| NRHP reference # | 89000141 |
| Added to NRHP | March 2, 1989 |
The William H. Griffitts House is a historic farmhouse on Jackson Ferry Road in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States, northwest of Greenback and near the edge of Tellico Lake. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house, which was completed in 1854 (when its site was part of Blount County, Tennessee), is a two-story wooden frame farmhouse with nine rooms arranged in an ell-shaped layout. It is a vernacular design that exhibits Federal influences in its three-bay front facade and pedimented front entrance. The house has five fireplaces.
The owner of the house, William H. Griffitts, was born in 1825 into one of the Quaker families that had arrived in Blount County around 1800 and settled in the Unitia and Friendsville areas. He and his wife, Lucy Ann Burton, were the parents of seven children.
With other Quakers in the local area, the Griffitts family were active supporters of the Underground Railroad movement that aided fugitive African-American slaves attempting to reach freedom in the northern United States. Historians identify the Griffitts house and the nearby Friendsville and Unitia communities as "stations" on the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, they also sheltered white Southern men seeking to avoid military conscription by the Confederacy.
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