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Eagleville Home Dates to 1700s
Believe it or not, this is the oldest house that I’ve seen so far! This is the Absalom Scales house in Eagleville, Tennessee. Absalom had a rolling 600 acres of land in the rual town and built a four-room home from yellow poplar. After his death in 1835, his son Noah enlarged the home and…
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Abandoned Lynchburg Home – Now Gone
Here’s another abandon without a story. I could make one up for you, but I think I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking. This home was located in Lynchburg, Tennessee. It sat on close to 33 acres and appeared to once be a working farm. The driveway crosses the east fork of Mulberry…
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Gothic Hill House Dates to 1850
This pretty lady (she looks like a lady, right?) is the Hill House located in Marshall County, Tennessee. It was built allllll the way back in 1850. It boasts heavy gothic revival architecture. Just look at those arched windows all over! It still has the original poplar and ash hardwood floors inside along with an…
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Victorian Wartrace Home
This is the beautiful John Green Sims House in Wartrace, Tennessee. Gosh, I’m a sucker for Queen Annes. This home was built in 1884 for John Green Sims and his wife Mary. It’s believed to be a copy of a home that they both admired in Nashville. It maintains a lot of the original features…
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Historic Smyrna Church
This big brick building with the gorgeous stained glass windows is Smyrna First United Methodist Church in Smyrna, Tennessee. I seriously could not stop looking at those windows. This is just one of side of it. The rest of it is quite sprawling. I have little information on this one, just what I could find…
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Beech Hall Still Strong 157 Years Later
Take a peek at the Absalom Lowe Landis house in Wartrace, Tennessee. It’s also been called Beech Hall because of the once many beech trees on the property. Now, only a few remain. The home was built in 1866 on land granted to his father by Absalom Lowe Landis, who was a major in the…
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Tarpley Farm Since 1830
This antebellum beauty is the Tarpley Farm in Walter Hill, Tennessee. William Searcy moved from North Carolina to Rutherford county in 1803, the year is became a county! He aquired quite a lot of land and planted his first crop in this area in 1804. It’s not clear if he or his son Anderson was…
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Abandoned House – Now Gone
This house was once located in Rockvale, Tennessee on Hwy 99. According to a historic properties map, it was built in the 1850s. It has since been torn down.
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Brick Church Dates Back to 1812
A local favorite of mine in Rutherford County is this gorgeous piece of history, Salem United Methodist Church. The congregation of this church was founded in the home of Thomas Jarratt in 1812 by Thomas King and John Manley. After they grew too large for house meetings, they collected funds to build a log cabin…
