Rippavilla: parlor room
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Title |
Rippavilla: parlor room |
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Creator(s) |
Eatherly, Brad, photographer |
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Date |
2015 |
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Coverage |
2010-2019 |
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Property name |
Rippavilla |
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Additional property name |
Nathaniel Cheairs Home |
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Property type |
House |
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Additional property type |
Farm |
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National Register Reference |
96000773 listed on July 19, 1996 |
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Community Name |
Spring Hill, Maury County, TN |
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Description |
Color photograph of a first floor parlor room in a historic home. The table and chairs in the bottom left of the photo are supposedly where General John Bell hood received the information that the Union Army had snuck past his Confederate troops in the middle of the night. |
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Historical Notes |
Rippavilla was built by Nathaniel Cheairs IV. Construction began in 1852 and commenced in 1855. Rippavilla and its farmland was the location where General John Bell Hood's Confederate troops set up camp in late November of 1864. The Union Army marched past the Confederates while they were asleep through the night along the Columbia-Franklin Turnpike, what is now known as U.S. Highway 31. The house remained in the Cheairs family until 1920. |
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Collection Name |
Southern History Documentary Projects |
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Subject-LCSH |
Dwellings
Historic buildings -- Tennessee
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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Subject-TGM |
Interiors
Mantels
Mirrors
Military headquarters |
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Type |
Still image |
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Genre |
Photograph |
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Processing notes |
Canon T1i digital SLR camera; converted RAW files to TIFF in Photoshop. |
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Contributing Institution |
Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University |
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Copyright status |
Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission |
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Conditions for use |
Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only |
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Digital Publisher |
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University |
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