Ashwood Hall was a Southern plantation in Maury County, Tennessee.
The plantation was located in Ashwood, a small town near Columbia in Maury County, Tennessee.
[1][2] Opposite the mansion, Leonidas Polk built St. John's Episcopal Church from 1839 to 1842.
[1] On July 5, 1861, at the outset of the American Civil War, Andrew Jackson Polk, who was elected Captain,[4] organized the Maury County Braves in a grove on the grounds of Ashwood Hall.
[1] In 1862, Antoinette Polk saved Confederate personnel stationed at Ashwood Hall by warning them that Northern forces were coming their way.