Hundred Oaks Castle

ID: 2913
This file appears in: A Governor for Tennessee

Marks’s home was situated on a plantation which was purchased by him in the 1860s. It is said that his son Arthur counted the oak trees that dotted the land and came to the sum of one hundred, hence the name “Hundred Oaks”. Hundred Oaks Castle was formed from Arthur’s childhood home and his inspiration from Scottish castles. Courtesy of Hundred Oaks Castle.

This file appears in: A Governor for Tennessee

By Ashlee Chilton
Historical Marker # 1333 marks the birthplace of Albert Smith Marks, the twenty-fourth governor for Tennessee. Born in Daviess County, Kentucky, Marks lived in Kentucky until he was nineteen years…