The Carter House, a historic farm built in 1830 that landed at the center of the Battle of Franklin ... the 200th anniversary of the American Civil War." For more information about the Tennessee ...

Off Highway 31 sits a stately home central to the history of Spring Hill and a physical reminder of the role Middle Tennessee played in the Civil War and slavery in the South.

Hiram Masonic Lodge No. 7 claims the title of the longest continuously operating Masonic Lodge in all of Tennessee.

Challenges: Franklin Pierce had to deal with the violent consequences—“Bleeding Kansas”—of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which some historians categorize as a low-intensity civil war. Pierce ...