Was near Dickerson PK and East Trinity Lane Nashville, TN
Circa 1791. 2-story home
From Sara Bratcher. Her great-aunt Elizabeth Kaufman lived at the house for about 35 years.
Thomas Haile Talbot (1760-1831) and Ruth Greer Talbot (1768-1819) built their spacious mansion on a hill near the intersection of Dickerson Rd. and East Trinity Lane. It was among the very earliest homes in the Nashborough area in 1791.
Talbot and his parents migrated from Virginia and settled in western North Carolina territory in the Watauga Settlement - the first self-governing community in the future United States. He was very involved militarily and politically with the community including Sheriff and Clerk of the Senate for short-lived State of Franklin. In 1785, after their marriage, the Talbot family moved to Fort Nashborough.
The Talbots purchased a large tract of land north of Ft. Nashborough. For her service of defending the Watauga Settlement fort, Ruth was granted over 2,600 acres on the south side of the Elk River in the future Lincoln Co., TN. - somewhere south of Fayettevile, TN.
Image from 1871 Map of Nashville. Talbot farm is on the western side of Dickerson Pk leading north from Nashville.
The Thomas Talbot farm stretched 290 acres from Dickerson Rd. across Brick Church Pike to the Cumberland River on the southern end and north to Brick Church Pike and West Trinity Lane in the 1790s to early 1800s. It was beside Eaton’s Station for protection. He raised various crops and with many apple trees made brandy. By about 1800, he had a gristmill, distillery and with his apple orchard providing apple brandy. In 1804, with his brother Clayton, Talbot opened a tavern on the east side of the Nashville square - it would become a “ center of Nashville society and politics” for many years. Later it evolved to become the best hotel in town. In 1813, it was the site of the infamous brawl between Andrew Jackson and friend John Coffee versus Thomas Hart Benton, brother of one of Jackon’s former officers. After Ruth died, Talbot remarried to Elizabeth Parr from Sumner Co. in 1821.
From 1930 until 1966, Elizabeth Kaufman owned and resided in the house. After her death, the home was disassembled and the historic logs saved by the Tennessee Towne project. The idea considered in the early 1970s was to move the Talbot, Robertson and Hows historic homes to a special site off Old Hickory BL in Bellevue about 1974. It never materialized. The Robertson home was moved to Charlotte Pike near Nashville West. The Hows place was remodeled.
The area remains known as Talbot’s Corner. After Thomas’ death, the southern portion was sold to Capt. Walton and subsequently to the J.P.W. Brown family.
By 1967, the home had been vacant for a long time and was falling apart. See Westview (Walton-Brown Home)
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