This home was evidently the first one built by famed carpenter Nathan Vaught.
Maj. John Brown II (1738-1812) and Jane McDowell Brown (1750-1838) built Annoatuck between 1818-1823. They wed about 1763. It was a 2 story brick house standing on a hill over the Duck River on the Nashville Highway near Columbia. John was one of 6 sons to divide his and his father’s Tennessee 5,000 acreage from Revolutionary War grants. John fought at least at King’s Mountain. John also received land grants for his efforts in negotiating Indian treaties. Their children, Hugh Thomas Brown (1871-1961) and Margaret West Brown (1876-1947) owned the property next, but may not have resided there. Virginia Amelia Brown Boardman was the last family member to own it. Virginia (1900-1973) married to Percy Douglas (P.D.) Boardman (1900-1971). Percy worked with Bell Telephone companies. The Brown/ Boardman families owned Annoatuck until the 1960s.
Then Col. Waverly Hayes Jackson (1890-1974) and Alleen Overton Jackson (1891-1977) were owners in 1969. In April 1969, Annoatuck was one of the homes opened for the annual Spring Pilgrimage for the Maury County chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities. As a youth, Alleen had a story written about her continuing the 19th century tradition of writing letters to Santa to a local newspaper that ran in the Columbia Herald in 1899. She later served as organist for years at the First Presbyterian Church.
In 1976, Annoatuck with 25 acres was auctioned. Bill Looper purchased the property in that year for $128,000 with 8.7 acres as a Mother’s Day gift for his wife.
In 1990, the home was dismantled and put in storage by the owner, Lawrence Johns. Developers demolished Annoatuck by 1991 for a shopping center and grocery store. The name comes from the Cherokee term for “Windy Hill.”
Sources:
Tennessee Historical Society story letters to Santa, 1899
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