Maggie Brown Marries
Thomas and Margaret Brown’s daughter Maggie marries and moves to Franklin with her husband; Margaret moves with her.
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Edwin Curtiss, working for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, conducted a brief exploration at Old Town in October of 1878. After uncovering six stone-box graves along the […]
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Findings from Joseph Jones’ first archaeological excavation at Old Town were published on January 1, 1876, by the Smithsonian Institution as “Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee”, as part of the […]
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Franklin explorer Dr. William Martin Clark investigated Old Town on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution to help gather evidence to dispel the myth of the “Tennessee pygmies” and to gather collections for […]
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Thomas Brown, Sr. dies, owning 546 acres of land including the Old Town homeplace. Before he died, Mr. Brown divided his property into tracts which were written on pieces of paper and […]
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Thomas and Margaret Brown’s daughter Jennie marries Joe H. Bowman.
Learn MoreFirst Archaeological Excavation by Joseph Jones
First archaeological excavation at Old Town conducted by Dr. Joseph Jones, the first City Health Officer for Nashville. Jones recorded the site consisted of two “pyramidal” mounds, a circular “burial” mound, and […]
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Thomas and Margaret Brown’s daughter Bethenia marries John A. Miller.
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Thomas Brown refuses to sign the Oath of Allegiance after Nashville fell to the Union army and was subsequently imprisoned.
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