Walton-Wiggins Farm

The Walton-Wiggins Farm is a historic farmhouse in Springfield, Tennessee, U.S..

Walton--Wiggins Farm
Walton-Wiggins Farm
Nearest citySpringfield, Tennessee
Coordinates36°31′12″N 86°44′05″W
Area5.2 acres (2.1 ha)
Built1855 (1855)
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSHistoric Family Farms in Middle Tennessee MPS
NRHP reference No.97000883[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 8, 1997

The house was built circa 1855 for Dr. Lycurgus B. Walton, a physician and slaveholder.[2] His son, Martin Atkinson Walton, graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and took over his father's medical practise in the house.[2] He lived there with his wife, Elizabeth Henry Woodard, and their six children.[2] One of his daughter, Eva, married John Bynum Wiggins, and the farm was subsequently inherited by their descendants.[2] By the 1980s, the owner was John Bynum Wiggins III, and the farm was used for "livestock cattle, soybeans, tobacco, corn and wheat."[2]

The house was designed in the Colonial Revival architectural style, with Greek Revival features.[2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 8, 1997.[3]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Walton-Wiggins Farm". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  3. "Walton--Wiggins Farm". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 4, 2018.


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