Old Natchez Trace 1 1/2 mi. S of Moran Rd., Franklin, Tennessee. County/parish: Williamson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 14, 1988. NRIS 88000324.
Part of Williamson County MRA (NRIS 64000824).
1 contributing building. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Old Town, also known as the Thomas Brown House, is a house in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, at the Old Town Archeological Site that was built by Thomas Brown starting in 1846. It is a two-story frame structure built on an "I-House" plan, an example of vernacular architecture showing Greek Revival influences. The Thomas Brown House is among the best two-story vernacular I-house examples in the county (along with the William King House, the Alpheus Truett House, the Claiborne Kinnard House, the Beverly Toon House, and the Stokely Davis House).
It was located on the Harpeth River branch of the Natchez Trace.
Singer Jimmy Buffett owned the house in the late 1980s.
It is built amidst and named for, Old Town, a village site of Mississippian culture with mounds. It is located near Old Town Bridge, the remains of a Natchez Trace bridge.
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