10/27/2026
to a 2013 visit to Thurleston in Madison. Named after Thirlestane Castle in Scotland (the subject of a poem written by Sir Walter Scott), Thurleston is a large-scale manor house. Built in 1818 as a smaller Plantation Plain style frame house, the house was moved from the John Walker Family Plantation to its current site in 1841. The new owner, Dr. Elijah Jones, had architect Benjamin Peoples design the front facade and an addition in 1848 that more than doubled the size of the house. Private residence.
