Antebellum Homes Progressive Dinner
By Maury County CVB
06/09/2008
Experience a wonderful Southern hospitality dinner along with a historic tour and dinner entertainment to delight groups of all interests.
Contact Information:
t: view phone 888-852-1860
e: view email cwells@maurycounty-tn.gov
w: view URL http://www.antebellum.com
- Learn about the President who met all his campaign promises
- Enjoy appetizers in his beautiful garden
- Envision yourself in your hooped skirt as you prepare for dinner
- Dine in the beautiful double parlor of Rippavilla Plantation
- Hear a pistol crack at Ferguson Hall
Tour Dates:
Number of Days: 1
Take yourself back to the 1800’s this evening. Begin in the 40’s by visiting
the home of James K. Polk, our 11th President, and enjoying appetizers
in his garden.
You will partake of a bountiful plantation meal in the double parlors of
Rippavilla Plantation. Here you will enjoy stories of the Cheairs family
and see the family museum.
Your evening will end with a bang at Ferguson Hall as you have homemade
desserts served by costumed docents..
DAY 1:
Arrive in Columbia, and begin your progressive dinner in the
"Antebellum Homes Capital of Tennessee."
Meet your tour guide at the Visitors’ Center on West Seventh Street.
There are restrooms at the Visitors’ Center across the street from the
Polk Home.
You will begin your evening with a tour the home of one of our
nation's most accomplished and little known Presidents, James K. Polk.
Learn how this 11th President fulfilled all his campaign promises and
extended our country's borders from sea to sea, all in one term of
office! President James K. Polk's Home is a tour favorite. Following
the tour you will enjoy appetizers in the primitive kitchen and the
beautiful garden of the Polk Home.
(Cheese, finger foods and fruit tea)
The group will board the bus for the drive to Rippavilla Plantation.
Arrive at Rippavilla Plantation for your tour of this magnificent
Antebellum mansion. Rippavilla was the site of a civil war tribunal
breakfast of Confederate Generals on the morning of the Battle of
Franklin. An appetite is required for Tennessee’s most unique dining
experience, Rippavilla Plantation’s Southern Extravagance, a southern
dinner featuring foods cooked and presented in the fashion it was
customarily served to visitors of this working farm for generations.
(Southern fried chicken, baked ham, corn pudding, southern green
beans, sweet potatoes, corn bread sticks, biscuits and jam, and iced
tea)
Top off the evening with dessert and coffee at Ferguson Hall. Have
some murder, adultery and intrigue with your dessert.
(Assortment of southern homemade cakes, hot tea, coffee)
