Sweet Bottom Plantation Tour

This home in The Battery was inspired by the Rattle and Snap Plantation in Tennessee. Built in 1845 for George Polk, it is named after the “rattle and snap” game of chance in which his father, Colonel William Polk, won 5,648 acres of land from the Governor of North Carolina. One of five sons to inherit the property, George Polk decided to build a magnificent Antebellum mansion in the Greek Revival style and develop his parcel into a cotton plantation. Thousands of clay bricks were made on site and the foundation hewn from native limestone. Ten 26-foot Corinthian columns were cast in Cincinnati and shipped by boat to Nashville, then pulled by oxen-drawn wagon to the site. The interior has 15-foot ceilings with Waterford chandeliers, hand crafted plaster medallions and exquisite crown moulding.