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Rattle and Snap is a Greek Revival mansion near Columbia, Tennessee. It was built in 1845 by George W. Polk, a relative of president James K. Polk and the son of William Polk. William was a North Carolina native 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 from slave labor and is the largest most extravagant mansion in Maury County, Tennessee.〔"Rattle and Snap Papers." Albert Gore Research Center.〕 The mansion is made of limestone and brick, surrounded by ten columns on the exterior, and standing two and a half stories tall.〔Evans, Blanche. "THE STORY OF RATTLE AND SNAP: HOW TOO MUCH MONEY SAVED THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLANTATION HOME IN THE SOUTH." The Story of Rattle and Snap. Realty Times, 2007. Web.〕 George Polk and his family lived in this mansion for fifteen years. During the American Civil War, most plantations and mansions in the south, were either looted or burned by Union soldiers. Rattle and Snap survived. At the end of the war the Polk family went bankrupt and could not afford the land or mansion, and Rattle and Snap was sold to Joseph John Granbery in 1867. The Granbery’s lived in the mansion for over fifty years.〔William R Polk, Polk's Folly: An American Family History, First Anchors Book Edition (New York: Anchor Books, 2001), xxiv; digital image, William R Polk, Family Search (familysearch.org )〕 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'.〔(Rattle and Snap Plantation website )〕 It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971.〔〔 and 〕 It is located on Andrew Jackson Highway, Tennessee State Route 243, near Columbia.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rattle and Snap」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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