Bellevue Plantation

Bellevue Plantation
Bellevue today, at the Tallahassee Museum
LocationLeon County, Florida
Nearest cityTallahassee, Florida
Coordinates30°24′45″N 84°20′41″W / 30.41250°N 84.34472°W / 30.41250; -84.34472
NRHP reference No.71000238[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 11, 1971
Historical marker
Engraving of Bellevue 1885

Bellevue Plantation was the U.S. home of Catherine Willis Gray Murat, located in Tallahassee, Florida. It was purchased in 1854 after Catherine's second husband Prince Achille Murat (son of Joachim Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and King of Naples from 1808 to 1815) died in 1847. Murat was the great-grandniece of George Washington. She was a daughter of Colonel Byrd C. Willis (August 29, 1781 – 1846) and his wife Mary Lewis. Mary Lewis was the granddaughter of Fielding Lewis, George Washington's brother-in-law. Through the Lewis family, she was also a relative of explorer Meriwether Lewis.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.