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Latta House (Dyersburg, Tennessee)

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Built
  
1852

NRHP Reference #
  
78002586

Area
  
6,070 m²

Architect
  
Samuel Rankin Latta

Opened
  
1852

Added to NRHP
  
14 November 1978

Latta House (Dyersburg, Tennessee)

Location
  
947 Troy Ave., Dyersburg, Tennessee

Latta House is a historic house in Dyersburg, Tennessee. The house was built in 1852 by Samuel Rankin Latta. Latta was a Pennsylvania native who had moved to Tennessee and worked as a lawyer and teacher. He served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. His Civil War letters to his wife, Mary, are in the Tennessee State Library and Archives. The letters include a first-hand account of the Battle of Shiloh.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

References

Latta House (Dyersburg, Tennessee) Wikipedia