Samuel Winstead, a native of Virginia, came here in 1799. At his death, his $34,000 estate included several tracts of land and 78 slaves. His will granted freedom and passage to Liberia for all his slaves upon the death of his wife. At . . . — — Map (db m62197) HM
The land on which this handsome brick house stands was the eastern part of Revolutionary soldier Daniel Hill's original tract of 320 acres purchased in 1801. In 1854 John Ewing and Sara Buchanan Hill built their house in the Greek Revival style and . . . — — Map (db m166379) HM
This community was named for James Southall, a soldier in the Battle of New Orleans. In 1876 Sam Allen, James banks, J.S. Cotton, C.D. Kirkpatrick, Byron Lillie, and Theo Scruggs organized and built the Berea Church of Christ. A public school was . . . — — Map (db m149781) HM
This "Mother Church of the diocese of Tennessee," was begun in 1831, four years after its congregation was organized in 1827. Here James H. Otey, its first rector, was elected the first bishop of Tennessee. It was so damaged through use as a Civil . . . — — Map (db m61697) HM
(side 1)
Missionary priests first celebrated mass in Franklin in 1821 in a private home for the two resident Catholic families. The Nashville bishopric planned a Catholic church in Williamson County as early as 1843, but it was the influx . . . — — Map (db m149685) HM
Pre-war Middle Tennessee thrived. Residents free and enslaved grew copious amounts of corn, wheat, timber, cattle, and horses, and no area of the South produced more mules and hogs. Roads, rails, and telegraph wires webbed across the center of the . . . — — Map (db m188612) HM
The Tragedy of Franklin quite possibly may have been averted had this scholarly South Carolina Blue Blood been given the promotion to division command that his service record warranted. Completely reorganizing the South Carolina State Militia, the . . . — — Map (db m188355) HM
On a November afternoon in 1864 brave Confederate sons of Tennessee moved forward into battle against Federal lines entrenched two miles north. Winstead Hill served as the place of assembly and was an observation point during the battle. . . . — — Map (db m137700) HM WM
Side A
The association was established at Franklin on Sept. 14, 1892, in conjunction with the annual reunion of the Tennessee Association of Confederate Soldiers which was held in McGavock's Grove 500 yards Southeast of this marker. The . . . — — Map (db m77127) HM
The high ground you are on is part of a long ridge that divides central Tennessee. Streams south of the divide flow to the Duck and Tennessee Rivers, while streams to the north empty into the Cumberland River.
Travelers in the early days of the . . . — — Map (db m136447) HM
No words can describe the courage, endurance, and gallantry of the Army of Tennessee. They marched, fought, bled, and died for a Cause they knew was right. On that Indian Summer afternoon of November 30, 1864, the courageous Army of Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m135823) WM
The Mighty Giant
The American chestnut tree was once one of the most important trees in our eastern forest. The tree’s native range extended from Georgia all the way to Maine and west to the Ohio River Valley. In the Appalachian Mountains, . . . — — Map (db m144259) HM
On the morning of November 30, 1864, some 5,000 Federal cavalrymen under Gen. James H. Wilson were in this area. Most were located to your right front, east of the Harpeth River, but Gen. John T. Croxton’s brigade remained west of the river. By late . . . — — Map (db m138467) HM
On November 30, 1864, one of the last major battles of the American Civil War exploded across the rolling farmland just south of Franklin. Approximately 20,000 United States soldiers under Gen. John M. Schofield barely held off a massive attack by . . . — — Map (db m145948) HM
Soon after passing this point, the Southern assault came within range of Federal artillery. Just west of here, an advanced line of 3,000 Union troops began to fall back, and the Confederates pursued them into the main Union line. In moments, the . . . — — Map (db m188615) HM
Of the more than 12,000 enslaved people who lived in Williamson County in 1860, Fountain Branch Carter owned 28. Carter family records contain many of their names: Prescyt, Harriet, Jack, Calphurnia, Petrenella, Clara, Charlie, Frank, Susie, Oscar, . . . — — Map (db m139024) HM
The Columbia Pike began as a path that bison and other animals created en route to the salt lick at present-day Nashville. Native Americans used this and other trails for hunting as well as for travel. In the 19th century, the trails formed the . . . — — Map (db m139333) HM
Gen. Jacob D. Cox’s Division, XXIII Corps, led the Federal army to the outskirts of Franklin before dawn on November 30, 1864. While army commander Gen. John M. Schofield inspected the bridges on the Harpeth River, Cox set up his headquarters behind . . . — — Map (db m139441) HM
After the Battle of Franklin, veterans on both sides vividly recollected F.B. Carter’s “old cotton gin.” Built early in the 1850s, it figured importantly in countless stories about the heaviest fighting, which unfolded here at the “angle.” Before . . . — — Map (db m139623) HM
Just before 4:30 P.M., when the bulk of Confederate Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s Division struck this part of the main Federal line, the 100th Ohio Infantry buckled under the pressure. Although Cleburne had been killed just south of here, his men slammed . . . — — Map (db m139624) HM
Southern farming was transformed as the 19th century dawned. Subsistence farming and plantations devoted to tobacco, rice, and sugar cane had long been dominant. Two events changed the agricultural formula.
First, Eli Whitney invented the . . . — — Map (db m139690) HM
Here at Franklin in November 1864 when the hopes of 1861 seemed just a fleeting memory, the soldiers of the Army of Tennessee attacked furiously toward you across the rolling fields. A Federal officer who was here saw their “red-and-white tattered . . . — — Map (db m139861) HM
Just before sundown on November 30, 1864, 3,000 Confederate soldiers charged past here and smashed into the main Federal line fewer than 200 feet ahead of you. They belonged to Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne’s Division, the most battle-hardened unit of . . . — — Map (db m140233) HM
Fountain Branch Carter bought nineteen acres of Columbia Pike from Angus McPhail in 1829 and completed his house the next year for himself, his wife Polly, and their children. The farm’s prosperity was directly connected to the four to fifteen . . . — — Map (db m188359) HM
You are standing where the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Battery (US) was posted during the battle, staring down the Confederate advance. The battery was organized in September 1861 under Capt. David Stone and consisted of four three-inch rifled . . . — — Map (db m188360) HM
Emancipation created a novel problem for cash-poor white Southern farmers as well as the newly freed slaves, or freedmen. Land was abundant, but the labor force was largely dispersed, and there was little money to hire available black or white . . . — — Map (db m188515) HM
You are standing in the Confederate line of attack during the battle, where Gen. Francis Marion Cockrell’s 1st Missouri Brigade came under and returned heavy fire. Cockrell, an attorney in Warrensburg, Missouri, before the war, fought at Wilson’s . . . — — Map (db m189732) HM
Elements of four Confederate divisions rushed toward you on November 30, 1864, to assault the Federal line behind you. Gens. Patrick R. Cleburne, Samuel G. French, John C. Brown, and Edward C. Walthall commanded the divisions. Their men hailed from . . . — — Map (db m189733) HM
For several hours on November 30, 1864, this area was the scene
of some of the bloodiest close-quarters combat of the Civil War.
Federal Gen. Thomas Ruger’s Division and Confederate Gen.
John Brown's Division battled each other with unbridled . . . — — Map (db m202756) HM
The Carter Family Garden occupied about two acres here. Like most antebellum gardens, it was fenced to keep animals out. At the time of the Civil War, the Carter family and their enslaved laborers raised vegetables and herbs here, accessing the . . . — — Map (db m202759) HM
On November 30, 1864, Federal commanders created a defensive line anchored by their batteries. At about noon, Gen. Jacob Cox ordered Capt. Lyman Bridges, Chief of Artillery, to begin placing the guns. West of Columbia Pike, four batteries were moved . . . — — Map (db m202763) HM
Federal Gen. Thomas H. Ruger’s Division began to arrive here about 6.30 a.m. on November 30, 1864. The men were given a short rest, "a few winks of sleep,
and their morning coffee.” Ruger, who had fought at places like Antietam and
Gettysburg in . . . — — Map (db m202807) HM
Confederate Gen. John C. Brown, a native of Giles County, Tennessee, commanded one of the Southern army’s most formidable divisions. It numbered more than 3,700 soldiers; most hailed from Tennessee, but some called Georgia and South Carolina home. . . . — — Map (db m202808) HM
(preface)
In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood let the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the Sea," . . . — — Map (db m188356) HM
Into this area rushed elements of four Confederate divisions on November 30, 1864 as they assaulted the Federal lines near the Carter cotton gin. Crossed largely by troops from Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne’s Division, the area was flooded by men . . . — — Map (db m137249) HM
In late 1864, the last major campaign of the Civil War swept into Middle Tennessee. The Confederate Army of Tennessee commanded by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood, moved out of Georgia after the fall of Atlanta, marched across Alabama, and pushed north . . . — — Map (db m188614) HM
Several armed clashes occurred among political groups and the white and black populations after the Civil War. In May 1866, Memphis rioters killed about fifty. In July, a riot engulfed New Orleans, killing almost 240 including more than 200 U.S. . . . — — Map (db m147912) HM
In the 1930s, Wirt Harlin created Harlinsdale Farms from a tract of land he bought near downtown Franklin, Tennessee. This farm would soon become cemented in history as one of the founding Tennessee Walking Horse Farms and as the home of the . . . — — Map (db m202408) HM
The last state to leave the Union, Tennessee became the first to reenter in 1866. But the end of the Civil War did not bring an end to hardships. No other state except Virginia experienced more military engagements than Tennessee. Roads, bridges, . . . — — Map (db m189008) HM
The main barn was built in the early 1940s and has been the center of Harlinsdale operations ever since.
The barn was the domain of the handlers and trainers of the Walking Horses. Each day every horse would be groomed and then worked and groomed . . . — — Map (db m202426) HM
Restored to its mid-nineteenth century layout and appearance, this nearly one acre garden was an important feature for the residents of Carnton. An earlier garden was located on the southeastern side of the home, but was removed and relocated to . . . — — Map (db m142906) HM
The Old Natchez Trace
This original 4.1 mile stretch of the Old Natchez Trace from Old Hillaboro Road to Sneed Road has been in continual use since 1801 and is part of the Williamson County road system. In this short piece of the original . . . — — Map (db m149812) HM
Dr. Walter Pyle (1908-1977) opened his clinic at 407 Church Street in 1941. He acquired this property from C.W. Harper for $700, building the block and stucco structure for $7,000. As one of the few local full-service clinics, the Pyle Clinic is . . . — — Map (db m149351) HM
While Harlinsdale is known for their horses, it was also a working farm. Several families lived and worked the farm to grow corn and raise cattle and hogs. Crops and pay were equally distributed among the families and farm. Harlinsdale was . . . — — Map (db m202407) HM
Front:
The Florida soldier for duty’s sake, undaunted, stood to the front of the battle until no light remained to illuminate the field of carnage, save the luster of his chivalry and courage.
Finley’s Brigade
Col. Robert Bullock . . . — — Map (db m137689) WM
This cemetery is named for Toussaint L'Ouverture, a slave leader whose rebellion led to Haiti's independence in 1804. The cemetery is the final resting place for many Williamson County African-Americans. Among the ex-slaves buried here are A. N. C. . . . — — Map (db m149652) HM
This United Methodist church was an outgrowth of Mt. Zion Methodist church, established about 1840 in Burke Hollow near the Tom Page house. Mt. Zion was destroyed in 1863 by Union soldiers who used its materials for a signal station on Daddy's . . . — — Map (db m54053) HM
Tyler Berry, Jr. (12.4.1912-2.27.1996) was the original Tennessee Volunteer, Lawyer, Farmer and Outdoorsman and always a man of integrity and honor. Growing up on the Reams Fleming Place and Chadwell Place, he energetically ran his traps before . . . — — Map (db m160320) HM
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the U.S. War Department created the Bureau of Colored Troops on May 22, 1863. Approximately 200,000 African American men enlisted in segregated U.S. Army regiments under white officers and served in . . . — — Map (db m146135) HM
U.S. Model 1841 6-Pounder Field Guns
In 1908, the U.S. War Dept. loaned the four bronze gun tubes on the Square to Franklin. The N.P. Ames Co. and Cyrus Alger & Co. in Mass. cast the guns between 1847 and 1861. These guns were among the last to . . . — — Map (db m193180) HM
This Monument memorializes War of 1812 soldiers buried along the Old Natchez Trace, and it honors the service of all brave volunteers who marched on the Natchez Trace during the War of 1812 to help establish American Independence.
The Natchez . . . — — Map (db m83188) HM
(Preface):In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to the . . . — — Map (db m164302) HM WM
In 2009, a construction project along Columbia Pike 2.5 miles south of here unearthed human bone fragments, in an area that was part of the Franklin battlefield. Forensic anthropologists determined that these were the remains of a Civil War . . . — — Map (db m141485) HM
Walter Aiken Roberts (June 4, 1865 - July 3, 1948), born in Pulaski (Giles County) Tennessee, son of Dr. Joseph Coleman Roberts (11.18.1821 - 3.24.1898) and Sarah Jane Anthony Roberts (1.23.1832 - 12.24.1901).
W.A. Roberts married . . . — — Map (db m161311) HM
Winstead Hill Park is located approximately two miles south of downtown Franklin. The hill’s name comes from an early inhabitant of Williamson County, Samuel Winstead, who owned the land. Some 19 years before the Civil War, he executed a . . . — — Map (db m146925) HM
The church was founded in or about 1869 under the leadership of Elder Peter Starnes. The uncertainty of the founding year is because the recorded minutes of the Third Annual Session of the Colored United Baptist Association held in Pulaski, . . . — — Map (db m156519) HM
Westhaven Community
The Westhaven community encompasses the historic farms of S.F. Glass, Wm. White, Price Gray, Wm. Ashley, James Thompson, Edmund Cook and Theodore Scruggs and their family cemeteries. The high density of pre-historic . . . — — Map (db m205398) HM
In 1807 William I. Boyd of Halifax Co. VA purchased 216 ¼ acres from the Robert Hay 640-acre N.C. land grant and built the present log homestead overlooking the West Harpeth River and the Natchez Trace. His log home, with its 1840 addition, is . . . — — Map (db m150384) HM
Dedicated to the men and women of Williamson County who served their country in time of need
October 26, 1799 • October 26, 1999 — — Map (db m61731) WM
Williamson
County Jail
1905
This property has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m182253) HM
Williamson County Jails
Williamson County has had seven jails since 1800. Bridge Street has been the location of five. From 1800 to 1816, the first jail was located at 117 Third Avenue North. In 1817, a two-story log jail was built on the . . . — — Map (db m150915) HM
Opened in 1924, this was the largest outdoor concrete swimming pool in the South. Willow Plunge was owned, and for many years operated, by the Claiborne Kinnard family. Water was piped 1,023 feet from a spring to the willow-shaded double pool . . . — — Map (db m69031) HM
(Preface): In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Sherman's supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman's "March to . . . — — Map (db m135822) HM
“The line advanced at 4 p.m. with orders to drive the enemy into or across the Big Harpeth River… Never did troops fight more gallantly.”
Gen. John Bell Hood
Army of Tennessee
Confederate States of America — — Map (db m135826) HM WM
Nicholas Perkins (1779 - 1848) established this 12000-acre estate about 3 miles S.W. in 1810. In 1807, an official Mississippi Territory, he had arrested former vice president Aaron Burr and taken him from Ft. Stoddert, Mss., to Richmond, Va., for . . . — — Map (db m158703) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m204699) HM
Bank of Leiper's Fork
The Bank of Leiper's Fork was organized in 1911 with a capital stock of $10,000. Bank officials included President Bennett Hunter, Vice President P.O. Hassell and Cashier W.L. Pinkerton. Board members in 1932 included . . . — — Map (db m61734) HM
This seven-foot deep, hand-dug well and the slave cabin 115 yards south were once part of the 2,560-acre plantation of the Ann Gooch Benton family who moved here in 1801 from Hillsborough, N.C. The Benton home stood on the Natchez Road (now Old . . . — — Map (db m150329) HM
Dr. George B. Hunter Farm
This farm was part of the 2,560 acre Benton plantation, which was sold in 1821 to Samuel Cummins. During the 19th century the farm passed from Cummins to Swanson Johnson to James Swanson to Dr. George Bennett and, . . . — — Map (db m166397) HM
Situated on the Natchez Trace, the village and stream were named for pioneer surveyor Hugh Leiper. The Adams, Benton, Bond, Carl, Cummins, Davis, Dobbins, Hunter, Meadows, Parham, Southall, and Wilkins families were early settlers. Later, the . . . — — Map (db m149777) HM
Born near Hillsborough, N.C., and in 1801 moved his widowed mother and seven siblings to a 2,500-acre tract on Leiper’s Fork Creek. This settlement was originally called Bentontown, then Hillsboro. Upon this site stood the Benton log home until . . . — — Map (db m149964) HM
1937 Historic Nolensville School
National Registry of Historic Places
2012
Preservation and Restoration by Members and Friends of Nolensville Historical Society — — Map (db m221156) HM
A member of Coleman's Scouts, CSA, he was captured in a cornfield about 1½ mi. W., Aug. 29, 1864, by a patrol from the 115th Ohio Cav. Swallowing his dispatches, he was mutilated and tortured to make him reveal their contents. Refusing, he was . . . — — Map (db m143463) HM
The first Nolensville African American church began worship services
here in an old farmhouse soon after the Civil War. On April 21, 1869
the land was purchased by Ohio missionary G.H. Hartupee, who helped
fund several African American churches . . . — — Map (db m198901) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m143457) HM
William Nolen purchased a portion of a land grant to Jason Thompson on which Nolensville was later built. In the early 1800s a large migration from Rockingham N.C. brought the Adams, Allen, Barnes, Cyrus, Fields, Glenn, Irion, Johnson, Peay, Scales, . . . — — Map (db m32815) HM
This cemetery was begun in 1899 by J.W. Williams on land bought from Isaac Neely. The Mid-section began in 1917 as the S.G. Jenkins cemetery. J. W. Williams bought adjoining land in 1925 and expanded the Jenkins cemetery. More land was added by C. . . . — — Map (db m151190) HM
Nolensville School was first proposed in the early 1930's by members
of the community and the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) out of
concern for their aging school's deterioration and consolidation of small,
one-room school houses nearby. . . . — — Map (db m149865) HM
This church was founded in 1837 as Mt. Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Original trustees were Joseph Critchlow, John Hay, Benjamin Johnson, Benjamin King, John Matthews, Phillip Owen, and Nathaniel Owen. Originally, the church was located . . . — — Map (db m149868) HM
Dedicated to the men and women who have served our country in time of war and peace
Homecoming July 26, 1986
Roll of Honor
Nolensville, Tennessee
World War I 1917-1919
Ed M. Byrd•
Richard Fly•
Jimmie King•
Owen B. Layne•
Tom W. . . . — — Map (db m221155) WM
Sherwood Green (1766-1840) came to Tennessee in the late 1700s from Warren County, North
Carolina as a member of a team charged with surveying Revolutionary War grants. The group
was headed by his father-in-law, Col. William Christmas, who became . . . — — Map (db m151189) HM
Ben Chrismon (1877-1963), a shoe cobbler, and his
wife, Mary Polk Chrismon, founded Sunset Park
between 1909-1929. Before integration, this park
was a popular recreation center for the African
American community throughout Middle . . . — — Map (db m198902) HM
After destroying a sizeable wagon train at Rock Springs, about six miles northeast, Wheeler's Confederate raiders late in the afternoon here captured about 200 prisoners, destroyed a wagon train and took with them a number of ambulances. They then . . . — — Map (db m220490) HM
Settled around 1800, the community was named Snatchit. attributed to the snatching of $10 from a debtor's hand. Renamed Peytonsville in 1835 with the opening of the post office, which closed in 1908. Early settlers were Revolutionary War . . . — — Map (db m163069) HM
These accomplished brothers were born near here
in the 1890's. Both learned to play banjos from
their father and performed with him at local
dances. They became accomplished musicians,
Sam on the guitar and Kirk on the fiddle, . . . — — Map (db m164901) HM
Africa, Alaska, Montana, The Yukon and other destinations were the
hunting grounds of Tyler Berry, Jr. during his lifetime quest for adventure
and hunting trophies. In preparation for each hunt, he would prepare
and zero in his rifle at 150 . . . — — Map (db m163057) HM
About ½ mile east, Buford's Division of Forrest's Cavalry Corps drove in pickets from Opdyke's and Lane's Federal Brigades and contained their defenses, extending west to the railroad. Meanwhile, Stewart's Corps, marching north further . . . — — Map (db m75097) HM
Foaled 1889, in the barn 200 yards west, he was the son of Brown Hal and Sweepstakes. His owner was Capt. Henry P. Pointer, who also bred Hal Pointer. Pacing at Readville (Boston), Mass., on Aug. 28, 1897, he became the first harness horse to go a . . . — — Map (db m149643) HM
Nestled in the Harpeth River Valley, the rolling
pastures and forested hillsides of Preservation Park
capture the centuries old stories of Thompson's
Station, where Native Americans resisted early settlers, the coming of the railroad created a . . . — — Map (db m205402) HM
In the spring of 1863 the Federal Army operating out of Nashville made several foraging expeditions into this area collecting food and hay. At this site, General Earl Van Dorn’s Confederate Cavalry Corps defeated a Federal task force under Col. John . . . — — Map (db m208489) HM
