A Greek Revival porch in Blackburn Hollow. Listed, not staged.
Robert Henderson Laird bought this Giles County ground from Thomas J. Lane and raised a one-and-a-half-story frame house about 1830–31. Weatherboard, brick foundation, Greek Revival lines. During the Civil War the house was used as a Confederate hospital. On the porch, 10 February 1867, James Knox Polk Blackburn married Mary “Mackie” McMillan Laird. The National Register listed the house on 7 September 1995 (95001088). Tours of the house and its Civil War collection are by appointment. Cabins on the farm are a separate desk: lairdlandfarmcabins.com. This site does not sell relics.