I live in Polk country.
Williamson County TN...Polk was big in Maury County too.
the signs of he and his family...Leonidis, their kin the McGavocks, Childresses etc are everywhere...their plantations and churchs and what not from here down into northern Mississippi.
and for the overly sensitive here, he freed his many slaves at his death and rarely if ever sold off any and if he did, he did it by families
he was like Jackson’s protege and dealt with the clash that was brewing while trying to expand the nation
It’s despicable what was allowed to happen to his downtown Nashville mansion “Polk Place.” He wanted it preserved for perpetuity, had himself interred on the grounds (along with Sarah). Squabbling relatives after her death disregarded his explicit instructions, sold off the property in sections, demolished the President’s mansion (virtually unprecedented in American history) (where an apartment building, called Polk Flats was constructed, now the site of a seedy motel across from the old library), and had Polk & wife DUG UP and reburied on the forlorn northeast side of the State Capitol grounds. Not what Polk wanted at all.
I’ve said many times the state should reacquire those properties, demolish most of what currently stands, reconstruct his old mansion, and put him and Mrs. Polk back where they’re supposed to be.