Old Town Bur Oak becomes Landmark Tree
By Macy Joyce, Williamson Herald, December 16, 2025 The Old Town Bur Oak is a magnificent tree which has survived the rich historical events and many storms of Williamson County. The oak, […]
Learn MoreA century after its last residents moved away, Craig County poor farm gets state recognition
Tracy and Bill Frist have spent years working to preserve old buildings around Craig County. They’re still determining what will happen with the old poor farm structures. by Lindsey Hull September 5, 2024 […]
Learn MoreA Passion for Preservation: The National Trust for Historic Preservation Visits Franklin
This article is featured in the July 2024 issue of nFOCUS in both the print version and online. JANET KURTZ | PHOTOGRAPHS BY COURTNEY DAVIDSON PHOTOGRAPHY Entertaining a group of dedicated preservationists […]
Learn MoreWell Preserved
Old Town is featured in the May 2024 issue of nFOCUS, Nashville’s premier social and lifestyle magazine. The article below is written by Janet Kurtz and photographs taken by Eric England. See […]
Learn MoreCicadas in Prehistory and Indigenous Folklore
By Kevin E. Smith, published in the May/June 2024 issue of The Tennessee Conservationist
Learn MoreTracy R. Frist Establishes Fund To Support Ferrum College and Blue Ridge Institute’s Preservation of Appalachian Literature and Folktales
November 2022 This November, former Ferrum College student and longtime supporter of the College, Tracy R. Frist, made a generous gift to Ferrum College to support the College’s Appalachian Literature project (AppLit) […]
Learn More2022 Old Town Collegiate Intern
Each summer Old Town sponsors an intern from universities across the country. The 2022 intern was Mason Stempel from Georgetown University. She is majoring in Anthropology with a double minor in Art […]
Learn MoreMiddle Cumberland Archeological Society
On June 19, 2021, the Middle Cumberland Archeological Society (MCAS) hosted its monthly meeting at Old Town. In their first in-person meeting since the beginning of the pandemic, MCAS members delved into […]
Learn MoreProtecting the Old Natchez Trace
An article written by Aaron Butler and published in The Tennes-Sierran, a bi-monthly state newsletter of the Tennessee Chapter of the Sierra Club
Learn MoreA Second Chance at Life
In the early 1900s, a blight destroyed all American Chestnut trees in the United States, once covering nearly 200 million acres of forest from Maine to Georgia. Scientists estimate that one out […]
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