HARRIS HOME - Hampton, TN
Posted by: vhasler
N 36° 17.006 W 082° 10.401
17S E 394626 N 4016024
Summer home of Georgia Govenor (1915–1917) Nathaniel E. Harris
Waymark Code: WM9VVB
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2010
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From the TN guidebook, we learn:
HARRIS HOME (open). This large square two-story brick structure was erected early in the nineteenth century by Elijah Simerly. During the War Between the States, it was the home of Nathaniel E. Harris, a Confederate sympathizer. Ostracized by his Unionist neighbors after the war, Harris moved to Georgia where he became prominent in politics; he was the last Confederate veteran elected Governor of Georgia. After war bitterness died down, the Harris family returned here each summer. A great spring in the back yard discharges 7 million gallons of pure freestone water daily and is the source of the municipal water supply of Elizabethton.
----- TENNESSEE - A Guide to the State (third printing 1949)
This Italianate-style home was built in 1863. It is now operated as a bed & breakfast. link