Tarkio - 3D Flythrough Tour

In this installment of 3D models for NCPTT's Documentation of Slave Cabin and Tenant Farming Houses Project, we visited Tarkio House in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

What is often coined “Tarkio”, the Greek Revival-styled Lewellen-Brown-White House was built by Jesse Lewellen, Jr. in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Lewellen’s ancestors, Welsh settlers, moved to North Carolina in the 1700s. The slaveholding family, whose patriarch was Reverend Jesse Lewellen, Sr, was able to provide land for some of his children, including Jesse, Jr., due to the Homestead Act of 1832. After the 1832 Treaty of Pontotoc was signed, the Lewellen family moved from Tennessee to Mississippi, where Lewellen, Jr. later became a land surveyor and probate clerk in Holly Springs. He was also one of the original founders of Marshall County, later becoming mayor.

The home associated with Lewelle, Jr. was built around 1854, and it sits next door to another plantation called Sutherland. While the original home was ravaged by fire in 2019, the slave quarters behind the home remain intact. Through carefully examined DNA analysis, some African American descendants of the enslaved owned by the Lewellen have been able to confirm they are the descendants of an enslaved woman named Sylvia and Jesse Lewellyn, Jr., or a close male relative of his.

NCPTT laser scanned this building using the Faro Focus S Laser Scanner to produce this video 3D flythrough model of the building's digital point cloud.
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