Bulloch Hall

Bulloch Hall

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caption = Bulloch Hall is where Theodore Roosevelt's parents Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. and Martha Bulloch were married in December of 1853
location= Bulloch Avenue, Roswell, GA
lat_degrees = 34 | lat_minutes = 0 | lat_seconds = 54.51 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 84 | long_minutes = 22 | long_seconds = 4.17 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1840
architect= Ball,Willis
architecture= Greek Revival
added = May 27, 1971
governing_body = Private
refnum=71000276 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2006-03-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Bulloch Hall is a Greek Revival mansion in Roswell, Georgia built in 1840. It is one of several historically significant buildings in the city and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is where Martha Bulloch, mother of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, lived as a child. It is also where she married Theodore Roosevelt's father, Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.

The Hall was built by Martha's father, Major James Stephens Bulloch. He was a prominent planter from the coast who was invited to the new settlement by his friend Roswell King. After the death of his first wife Esther Amarintha Elliott, in 1832 Bulloch married the widow of his first wife's father, Martha (Stewart) Elliott and had four more children Irvine Bulloch, Anna Bulloch, Martha Bulloch, and Charles Bulloch, who died young. In 1842 Bulloch and his family moved to the completed house.

Soon Bulloch also owned land for cotton production and held enslaved African-Americans to work his fields. According to the 1850 Slave Schedules [http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/cobb/census/1850/1850slaveschedules] , Martha Stewart Elliott Bulloch, by then widowed a second time, owned 31 enslaved African-Americans. They mostly labored on cotton and crop production, but some would also have worked in Bulloch Hall on cooking and domestic tasks to support the family.

Birth and marriage of Martha Bulloch

In 1835 on a visit to her stepson in Connecticut, James' wife gave birth to a daughter, also named Martha. She was known affectionately as Mittie. Mittie was raised at Bulloch Hall. When Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. was 19, he heard about Mittie, then 15, through one of her West family relatives in Philadelphia. "Thee", as he was called, waited a few years, announced his intentions, and successfully courted Mittie. When Mittie was 18, the young couple was married in the dining room of Bulloch Hall on December 22, 1853. The marriage was a gala affair with people coming for many miles and staying for a week. Mittie's best friend and bridesmaid, Mrs. William Baker, left a recollection of the wedding in an interview by Margaret "Peggy" Mitchell of "Gone with the Wind" fame, in the Atlanta Journal, June 10th, 1923.

After the marriage, the couple moved to Manhattan in New York City. Mittie's mother and sister, Anna, soon accompanied her to New York. After their move, the Roosevelt couple became the parents of Anna; Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States; Elliott and Corinne. After Elliott married, one of his children was Eleanor Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt's visit in 1905

Theodore Roosevelt who had begun his presidency on reasonably good terms for a half-northerner president, had infuriated the South by inviting Booker T. Washington to dine in the White House. Consequently, he waited a few years until the episode blew over and finally saw Bulloch Hall for the first time while visiting the South in 1905. He was the first sitting US president to visit the South since the end of the American Civil War.

The President and Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Roswell, Georgia on October 20, 1905. At Bulloch Hall, he spoke as follows:

:"It has been my very great good fortune to have the right to claim my blood is half Southern and half Northern, and I would deny the right of any man here to feel a greater pride in the deeds of every Southerner than I feel. Of all the children, the brothers and sisters of my mother who were born and brought up in that house on the hill there, my two uncles afterward entered the Confederate service and served with the Confederate Navy.

:"One, the younger man, served on the "Alabama" as the youngest officer aboard her. He was captain of one of her broadside 32-pounders in her final fight, and when at the very end the "Alabama" was sinking and the "Kearsarge" passed under her stern and came up along the side that had not been engaged hitherto, my uncle, Irvine Bulloch, shifted his gun from one side to the other and fired the two last shots fired from the "Alabama". James Dunwoody Bulloch was an admiral in the Confederate service. ...

:"Men and women, don't you think I have the ancestral right to claim a proud kinship with those who showed their devotion to duty as they saw the duty, whether they wore the grey or whether they wore the blue? All Americans who are worthy the name feel an equal pride in the valor of those who fought on one side or the other, provided only that each did with all his strength and soul and mind his duty as it was given to him to see his duty." [cite web | title = Teddy Roosevelt Tours Ole Dixie, Washington Times Article by William Connery | url = http://www.washingtontimes.com/civilwar/20060217-092131-5774r.htm| accessdate = 2006-05-03 ]

Visitor information

Bulloch Hall is located at:180 Bulloch Avenue:Roswell, GA 30075

This historic home is owned by the City of Roswell Georgia's Historic and Cultural Affairs Division and managed by Friends of Bulloch, Inc. a 501(c)3 charitable organization.

Bulloch Hall is open for tours seven days a week. Tour Schedule as of May 2006:
*Mon - Sat 10am - 3pm
*Sun - 1-3pm

For more information and tours call the Hall at 770-992-1731 in the US. The official site of Bulloch hall is http://bullochhall.org/index.html

Notes

ee also

*Martha Bulloch mother of Theodore Roosevelt
*James Dunwoody Bulloch her half-brother and Confederate Naval Agent in Britain
*Irvine Bulloch her brother and Confederate Naval officer
*Theodore Roosevelt Martha's husband and 26th US president

ources

* Roosevelt, Theodore. "An Autobiography." (1913)
* Harbaugh, William Henry. "The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt." (1963)
* Morris, Edmund "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" (1979)
* Morris, Edmund "Theodore Rex". (2001)
* Mowry, George. "The era of Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of modern America, 1900-1912." (1954)
* McCullouch, David. "Mornings on Horseback, The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt" (2001) Unfortunately, this book, while displaying a photo of "Mammy" Grace and "Daddy" Williams, calls them "unidentified" on page 131.
* [http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/research/ National Register Information System]

Bulloch Hall mentioned in Fiction

*Summer, Edward. "The Legend of Teddy Bear Bob" aka "Bear Bob's Story"

External links

* [http://bullochhall.org/index.html Bulloch Hall official website]
* [http://www.washingtontimes.com/civilwar/20060217-092131-5774r.htm Washington Times Account of Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 visit]


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