Located on Rocky Glade Road in Eagleville, the Scales Home has a Greek Revival double-fronted style which is uncommon in the area.
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Absalom Walker Scales, Sr. (1769-1835) and Ann Kenner Dalton Scales (1773-1840) built the original structure in the 1820s as a 4-room log house on 600 acres. Their home is one of the original homes in what became Rutherford Co. They were pioneers who helped establish the community of Eagleville.
They had three sons: John, Noah, and Joseph. Joseph got land and built a home in Triune.After Absalom’s death, his son, Noah Scales (1804-1859), and wife, Mary Batie Sayers Scales, enlarged the house. The next owners remained family with Noah’s daughter Mary Jane Scales Womack (1841-1872) and her husband John Knox Womack (1844-1922), who inherited the property. They wed in 1872, and Mary Jane perished the same year.
After Womack’s service in the Civil War, he changed denomination, was ordained a Baptist minister in 1869 and worked in the Round Lick Presbytery. Th After Mary died, Womack married her sister, Charlotte Gallihugh Scales, in 1873. During this time, the property was called the Old Womack Place. The Womack family entertained often and made use of their large home for large church events.
Their daughter, Nancy Womack Johnston, and her husband Joseph A. Johnston were the next owners. They did remodeling work in 1938. In 1973, their son, William P. Johnston, was the owner. The house has been called the names affiliated with the residing families. NRHP 1973 See Joseph Scales Home.
Sources:
National Register Properties, Williamson County, TN, Hillsboro Press, 1995, ed. Pearce, Warwick, Hasselbring, p. 100
https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/resources/2
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