Williamson County Historical Marker - Mayberry-Bailey Plantation

The H. G. W. Mayberry House, also known as Beechwood Hall, is a historic

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built in 1856 in

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Plantation house

Beechwood Hall was the manor house of one of the three largest

plantations Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, tobacco ...

in Williamson, prior to the

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. It had more than in area, and had many enslaved people laboring on it. The mansion's original owners were Sophronia Hunter Mayberry and Henry George Washington Mayberry. It includes

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and

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architectural elements. The other two contenders for Williamson County's largest plantation are those of the

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plantation, and the "Ravenswood" plantation (James H. Wilson House), both also NRHP-listed. The house was owned at various times by

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and

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Houses in Franklin, Tennessee Houses completed in 1856 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Antebellum architecture Greek Revival houses in Tennessee Italianate architecture in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub

Plantation house

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