Near Nolensville in Williamson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Est. 1870 /

Green Grove School & Green Grove Church Cemetery

Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church / Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, July 23, 2022

1. Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church / Marker

Inscription. Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Est. 1870 After the Civil War, African Americans who had been enslaved in the Triune area of eastern Williamson County organized to create a church and school. The D.K. Bostic family donated this site for that purpose. The church was founded in 1870 by Elder Robert House, a circuit preacher from Rutherford County, and named Green Grove United Primitive Baptist Church. Services were held under a tree until church members could complete the construction of a building for their church and school. Much of the work was accomplished at night by lantern light. In March 2001, the foundation for a new facility was poured. History repeated itself, me and women of Green Grove and the community worked together. On September 30, 2001 a newly built Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church was dedicated under the leadership of Elder Richard Lloyd.

Green Grove School & Green Grove Church Cemetery In 1870, the local community of former slaves in Triune organized the Green Grove School to educate their children. Local teacher, Mamie Bostic Starnes (1876-1939) taught here for many years. Green Grove

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School closed in 1956, transferring the students to Kirkland School, near College Grove. On an adjacent plot of land, directly behind the Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church, the Bostic Family Graveyard had been created to fulfill the Bostic family's vision to create a local space within the community for families to bury their loved ones. In 1982, the Bostic family gifted the cemetery to Green Grove Primitive Church. The cemetery is managed and maintained by the trustees and is now known as the Green Grove Church Cemetery.

Erected 2019 by Williamson County Historical Society.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Religion & Religious Structures. In addition, it is included in the Tennessee – Williamson County Historical Society series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1870.

Location. 35° 52.612′ N, 86° 39.644′ W. Marker is near Nolensville, Tennessee, in Williamson County. It is at the intersection of Nolensville Road (U.S. 41A) and Old Horton Highway, on the right when traveling north on Nolensville Road. Touch for map.

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, July 23, 2022

2. Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church / Marker

Marker is at or near this postal address: 7816 Old Horton Hwy, Nolensville TN 37135, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Middle Tennessee

and in Greater Nashville.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Triune Cemetery (approx. 0.8 miles away); Triune United Methodist Church (approx. 0.9 miles away); Wheeler's Raid Around Rosecrans (approx. one mile away); Wilson Creek Primitive Baptist Church (approx. 1.3 miles away); Triune (approx. 1.4 miles away); Kings’ Chapel Cemetery / Major William Edmondson (approx. 1.6 miles away); Bostick Female Academy (approx. 1.7 miles away); Kings' Chapel (approx. 1.8 miles away).

Photographed by Tom Gillard, December 12, 2019

3. Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church Marker

Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tom Gillard, December 12, 2019

4. Green Grove Primitive Baptist Church

Credits. This page was last revised on July 25, 2022. It was originally submitted on December 12, 2019, by Tom Gillard of Tullahoma, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 1,313 times since then and 97 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 24, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. 3, 4. submitted on December 12, 2019, by Tom Gillard of Tullahoma, Tennessee. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.