Leipers Fork in Williamson County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)

Hillsboro Union Church and Public School

Hillsboro Union Church and School Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, July 23, 2022

1. Hillsboro Union Church and School Marker

Inscription. On August 7, 1871, S.S. Hughes, a Confederate veteran, sold this lot for a church and school to recent freedmen Barry Tate, Thomas Cummins, and Robert Mayberry for fifteen dollars. Hughes requested the church be a Union Church, available to Methodists on the first Sunday, Presbyterians on the second Sunday. Baptists on the third Sunday, and Church of Christ on the fourth Sunday. By 1900 members of the Church of Christ became the primary congregation, holding services every Sunday. The building was used as a public school for local African American students from 1871 until 1955. Notable teachers were Top Mayberry. T.A. Williams, and Mrs. Eddie Campbell Dotson. Regretfully, arsonists set the building ablaze on Halloween night 1963. This erased the last African American landmark in the community. The U.S. 1870 census recorded 723 whites and 515 colored living in the area. The adjacent house was built in 1937 by Otice and Leola Lehew.

Erected 2016 by Williamson County Historical Society, in memory of Miss Matilda Mayberry (1890-1980).

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans

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• Education • Religion & Religious Structures. A significant historical date for this entry is August 7, 1871.

Location. 35° 53.735′ N, 87° 0.033′ W. Marker is in Leipers Fork, Tennessee, in Williamson County. It is on Elm Street just north of Old Hillsboro Road (Tennessee Route 46), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5500 Elm St, Franklin TN 37064, 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 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Leiper's Fork Church of Christ (about 500 feet away, measured in a direct line); Bank of Leiper's Fork / Hillsboro Methodist Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); Leiper's Fork (approx.

Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, July 23, 2022

2. Hillsboro Union Church and School Marker

0.4 miles away); Thomas Hart Benton (approx. 0.6 miles away); Benton's Well and Slave Cabin (approx. 0.7 miles away); Dr. George B. Hunter Farm / Along Leiper's Fork (approx. 1.3 miles away); Franklin-Hillsboro Turnpike / Franklin's Water Supply (approx. 2.4 miles away); Bingham (approx. 2.6 miles away).

Credits. This page was last revised on August 24, 2022. It was originally submitted on August 24, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 260 times since then and 25 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 24, 2022, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.