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Old Town (Franklin, Tennessee)
:''For the house also known as Old Town, see Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee)''
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Old Town is an archaeological site in Williamson County, Tennessee near Franklin. The site includes the remnants of a Native American village and mound complex of the Mississippian culture, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as Old Town Archaeological Site (40WM2).〔
==Background==
Since the early days of settlement in Middle Tennessee, the "Old Town on the Big Harpeth River" has been a critical component of a common understanding of the area's prehistory.〔Smith, Kevin E. "Archaeology at Old Town (): A Mississippian Mound-Village Center in Williamson County, Tennessee". ''Tennessee Anthropologist'' 18.1 (1993): 27-44.〕 The earliest archaeological investigations of the site were in 1868 by physician Joseph Jones,〔 who was then Nashville's municipal health officer; his efforts were largely frustrated because much of the site's most significant mound was occupied by the owner's wife's flower garden, but he was able to find a frog effigy from part of the mound outside the garden.〔 W.M. Clark mentioned the location in an 1878 publication,〔 but no more substantial excavations were conducted until 1928: while building a bridge over Brown Creek at its confluence with the river, Williamson County road crews accidentally dug into a large burial ground, and a local man worked hard to record as much information about the site as possible. Since the late twentieth century, no substantial excavations have been conducted, but the owners have permitted the recovery of artifacts from small portions of the site when construction has demanded work on the periphery; among this work has been a project to place a water pipeline in 1984 and the 1991 renovation of the Thomas Brown House on the property.〔
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