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Oxford, Mississippi - William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. In 1930, William Faulkner purchased what was then known as “The Bailey Place”, a primitive Greek Revival house sitting on four acres of hardwood and cedar. Colonel Robert Sheegog, an Irish immigrant planter from Tennessee, had built the home when he settled in the tiny frontier settlement of Oxford in the 1840’s. Faulkner renamed it Rowan Oak after the rowan tree, a symbol of security and peace.(Read More)