Near Brentwood in Williamson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
Beechville
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, May 9, 2020
1. Beechville Marker
Inscription.
Beechville. . Samuel McCutchen, Charles Brown, and Samuel Edmiston settled here before 1800. Thomas W. Stockett, who built a mill on Little Harpeth River, came by 1802. Near the intersection of Beech Creek Road and the Nashville-Hillsboro Turnpike were various businesses - saddletree and wagon makers, a blacksmith shop, sawmill, two stores, post office (1876-1903), and a toll gate. A Masonic lodge and Harpeth Academy shared a building north of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Community Schools were Oak Hill, Sunnyside and Beechville (black). Doctors M. T. Byrn, W. J. Parker and John Sugg attended the area's medical needs. Greater Pleasant View Baptist Church, organized in 1894, moved from Sneed Road to Hillsboro Road ca. 1932.
Samuel McCutchen, Charles Brown, and Samuel Edmiston settled here before 1800. Thomas W. Stockett, who built a mill on Little Harpeth River, came by 1802. Near the intersection of Beech Creek Road and the Nashville-Hillsboro Turnpike were various businesses - saddletree and wagon makers, a blacksmith shop, sawmill, two stores, post office (1876-1903), and a toll gate. A Masonic lodge and Harpeth Academy shared a building north of Harpeth Presbyterian Church. Community Schools were Oak Hill, Sunnyside and Beechville (black). Doctors M. T. Byrn, W. J. Parker and John Sugg attended the area's medical needs. Greater Pleasant View Baptist Church, organized in 1894, moved from Sneed Road to Hillsboro Road ca. 1932.
Erected 1997 by The family of Battle and Sara Puryear Rodes; Williamson County Historical Society.
86° 52.327′ W. Marker is near Brentwood, Tennessee, in Williamson County. It is on Hillsboro Road (U.S. 431) 0.1 miles north of Hillsboro Valley Road, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2947 Hillsboro Road, Brentwood TN 37027, 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.
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