John M. Fleming Home Place

Historic house in Tennessee, United States

United States historic place


John M. Fleming Home Place
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

The John M. Fleming Home Place in 2017
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Nearest city	Collierville, Tennessee
Area	318 acres (129 ha)
Built	1850 (1850)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate
NRHP reference No.	90001763^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 6, 1990

The John M. Fleming Home Place, also known as Duke Farm, is a historic mansion in Collierville, Tennessee, U.S..

History

The house was built circa 1850 for a South Carolinian couple, John M. Fleming and his wife Eliza Moseley.^[2] By 1850, they owned 13 male slaves and 11 female slaves.^[2] The grounds included a slave cemetery from 1851 to 1935.^[2] After the American Civil War of 1861–1865, slaves were replaced by sharecroppers.^[2] Fleming's son, Samuel T. Fleming, lived on the property until 1913, and it was purchased by the Duke family in 1924.^[2] The Dukes used sharecroppers until the 1960s.^[2]

The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 6, 1990.^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: John M. Fleming Home". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
^ "Fleming, John M., Home Place". National Park Service. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 28, 2017.