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Dennis & Linda Kosak

Pioneer Realty, Inc.
Sevierville, TN 37862

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Property Description

63 lakefront acres. Built in approximately 1855. Only 30 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. $3,900,000 Riverview, the I.W.R. Franklin house, is located in east Tennessee on the French Broad River, about two miles downstream from the confluence of the Nollichucky, Pigeon Forge and French Broad Rivers, now Douglas Lake, part of the Tennessee Valley Authority in Jefferson County. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and overlooks the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. According to the Tennessee Historical Commission, the house remains but one of four in Tennessee in its original plantation setting. The c 1853-1855 house is believed to have been a wedding gift by Lawson D. Franklin to his son, Isaac White Rodgers Franklin, and is representative of the Columbus Eclectic architectural style. Columbus Eclectic is a vernacular style of architecture, reaching its zenith in the Columbus, Mississippi environs in the 1850s, and combines design elements of Greek Revival, Italianate and Gothic Revival architecture. That Franklin would draw upon builders and then up-to-date design available in Columbus, rather than in the back country of Jefferson County is no surprise. Lawson D. Franklin had huge interests in land, personality and business in Tennessee, including one 20-mile parcel running along the French Broad and Nollichucky Rivers in east Tennessee, and the land of present day River View. In Mississippi, Franklin owned a one-half interest in a mercantile and trading business in Aberdeen and a large plantation outside of Columbus. In March, 1850 he married his second wife, Catherine Smith of Morgan County, Alabama. Smith owned large plantations in Morgan County & in Monroe County, Mississippi near Aberdeen, its county seat. Extant letters of Franklin from the 1850s reveal Franklin's travels and business in Columbus and Aberdeen. [1] [1] See, Lawson D. Franklin papers, Special Collections, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. See,

Property Features

• Property Type Single Family Home
• Year Built 1855
• Approx. Lot Size 63 Acres