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Old Town, also known as the Thomas Brown House, is a house in Franklin, Tennessee at the Old Town Archeological Site that was built by Thomas Brown starting in 1846.〔The Williamson County MRA gives a date of 1842; NRIS gives the date as 1846; McGuinness gives the date as "circa 1854."〕 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).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64500624.pdf )〕 It was located on the Harpeth River branch of the Natchez Trace. Singer Jimmy Buffett owned the house in the late 1980s.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=z6ntnxM0s20C&pg=PA139, page 139.〕 It is built amidst〔〔(Prehistoric and Pioneer Settlement ), Historic Nashville, Inc. website, accessed March 21, 2011〕 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. ==Original Owner== Thomas Brown was born in Virginia in 1800 and moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1822. Brown became a prominent farmer and purchased a large amount of land from William O'Neal Perkins in 1840. Brown began construction of this two-story frame house in 1846 with builder Prior Lilly acting as contractor. Little is known about Lilly but he is also the attributed contractor of the H.G.W. Mayberry House (MW-676), a brick central passage plan residence built ca. 1856. Thomas Brown was listed in 1860 with real estate valued at $25,000 and personal property of $34.500. At his death in 1870, he owned 546 acres of valuable land along the Harpeth River. Brown had six children and his daughter, Bethenia Brown Miller, lived at the house until her death in 1913.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/88000324.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Brown House (Franklin, Tennessee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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