Ewell Farm

Richard Ewell came to Spring Hill as a paroled general and became a farmer. He had married his first cousin Lizinka Campbell Brown, a wealthy widow from the Nashville area, in Richmond in 1863 after she nursed him through a wound. Back in Tennessee he worked her farm, helped make it profitable, and leased a cotton plantation in Mississippi. He also served as president of the Maury County Agricultural Society. In January 1872 both he and Lizinka came down with pneumonia and died within a few days of each other; he was 54.

What the plaque says

Ewell Farm This was the last home of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, CSA. Here his wife and her son, Maj. Campbell Brown, with Capt. M. C. Campbell and W. H. Webster, brought the first jersey cattle imported from the Channel Island to Tennessee. Here, also, was developed the "Hal" strain of pacers. Little Brown Jug and his brother, Brown Hal, are buried in the vicinity.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Mink Slide and East 8th Street — 11 mi
  Columbia's Black business and church district south of the courthouse square, where on the night of February 25, 1946 a white mob gathered and Black veterans stood guard.
• James K. Polk Home and Museum — 11 mi
  The 1816 brick house in Columbia where Polk practiced law and campaigned for the legislature, now a museum that also tells of the people the Polk family enslaved.
• Carnton — 11 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Henry Horton State Park — 17 mi
  A Duck River park on Governor Henry Horton's former farm in Marshall County, with a mill ruin from 1845, kayak floats and the grave of a governor the House declined to impeach.

More markers nearby

• William Banks Caperton — steps away
• Confederate Attacks at Spring Hill — 1.0 mi
• Star Pointer — 1.4 mi
• Rippavilla Plantation — 1.9 mi