Historic Places

Houston County · HWY 149

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE GIVES DATE OF CONSTRUCTION AS 1790. THERE IS TRAD-ITION IN COUNTY THAT HOUSE WAS BUILT WHEN "STATE WAS STILL NORTH CAROLINA." STRUCTURE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN BUILT BY MAJOR BRUNSON. ITIS LOG COVERED NOW BY BOARD AND BATTEN. IN BACK-

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ONE OF SEVERAL COUNTY STRUCTURES BUILT IN COUNTY AROUND 1900. STONE CHIMNEY HAS AN 1890'S DATE ON IT.

Houston County · ADKINS BR.

LOG PORTION OF HOUSE PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED CLOSE TO 100 YEARS AGO. HAS BEEN EXTENDED WEST. REPRESENTS STYLE OF BUILDING IN 18th AND 19th CENTURIES.

Houston County · SALMON BRANCH

REPRESENATIVE OF LOG STRUCTURES BUILT IN AREA AROUND THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY. THIS ONE HAS LOST ITS ELL. ALSO IS ONE OF HALF A DOZENADKINS LOG STRUCTURES BUILT IN THE SAME GENERAL VICINITY.

Houston County · OFF HWY 13 TOWARDS WAVERLY

ONE OF MANY McCAULEY PLACES BUILT ON UPPER END OF WELLS CREEK NEAR ERIN. BUILT LATE 1800'S. SOUTHERN ROOMS NEXT TO STONE CHIMNEY ARE OLDEST. CHIMNEY IS MADE OF STONE FROM BOTTOM TO SECOND STORY OF HOUSE. IT IS BRICK FROM THERE ON.

Houston County · OFF HIWAY 13

REPRESENATIVE OF COUNTRY HOUSES THAT HAVE EVOLVED FROM LOG STRUCT- URES. THE ORIGINAL TWO-STORY TWO-ROOM STRUCTURE IS ON NORTH SIDE WITH STONE CHIMNEY. HOUSE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SOUTH AND ELL HAS BEEN ADDED ON BACK.

Houston County · FRONT STREET

ONE OF FEW HOUSES ROW ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF TRACK THAT BUILT 50 YRS AGO. THERE APPEAR TO BE DENTILS ON ROOF. NO PICTURE WAS FOUND IN THISFILE, JUST ONE NEGATIVE.

Houston County · BATEMAN BR. ROAD

ORIGINAL 2STORY HOUSE COVERED NOW W/ SIDING. HOUSE HAS BEEN EX-TENDED ABOUT 10 FT. TO WEST. UNUSUAL BECAUSE BUILT COMPLETELY OF PLANKS 106 YRS AGO. REAR ELL HAS A BACK PORCH. VINYL SIDING COVERS WEATHERBOARDS ON HOUSE.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

ONE OF MANY HOMES THAT BUILT IN ERIN WAS AROUND THE TURN OF CENTURY WHICH IS STILL IN USE. THIS ONE WAS PUT TOGETHER WITH WOODEN PEGS.

Houston County · RYE LOOP, OFF BATEMAN BRANCH RD.

REPRESENATIVE OF ONE-ROOM SCHOOL HOUSES IN COUNTY BEFORE CONSOLIDA- TION OF SCHOOLS TOOK PLACE IN HOUSTON COUNTY. EXTERIOR EAVES ARE SCOLLOPED. THIS STRUCTURE REPLACED A LOG STRUCTURE ON SAME SIDE. ORIGINAL BATEMAN SCHOOL SITE WAS TO EAST ABOUT ONE

Houston County · MCKEWEN RD., MCKEWEN

THIS WAS THE OLDEST SCHOOL STRUCTURE FOUND IN THE COUNTRY. BELIEVE THIS IS THE BUILDING MENTIONED IN GOODSPEED AS BILCHER SCHOOL.IF SO,THEN THIS STRUCTURE WAS BUILT PRIOR TO 1886. THE BUILDING HAS BEEN MADE INTO TABLACCO BARN. IN ORDER TO DO THIS, THE

Houston County · MAPLE STREET, ERIN

THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE RAN BOONE'S MILL IN LATE 1800'S IN ERIN NEAR BOONE'S CROSSING. JACK BOONE MOVED FROM HERE UP TO HENRY BUQUO'S HOUSE IN 1890'S. TWO FRONT ROOMS DOWNSTAIRS AND TWO FRONT ROOMS UPSTAIRS WERE PROBABLY BUILT ORIGINALLY IN THE

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

ONE OF SEVERAL HOUSES THAT BUILT LOCAL CARPENTERS AROUND THE TURN OFCENTURY. NOTE THAT THE HOUSE STILL HAS SOME "GINGER BREAD" DETAILINGINTACT.

Houston County · LEWIS BRANCH ROAD

SMALL HOUSE THAT EVOLVED FROM ONE AND A HALF LOG STRUCTURE. ELLS WERE ADDED TO THE NORTH AND WEST SIDES OF ORIGINAL HOUSE. STRUCTURE PROBABLY 100 YEARS OR OLDER SINCE CONSTRUCTION WITH 18' BY 10' LOGS WAS NOT USED EXTENSIVELY AFTER 1900.

Houston County · LONG BRANCH ROAD

BOARD&BATTEN STRUCTURE BUILT BY CIVIL WAR VETERAN, GEORGE BROWNING. NATIVE LIMESTONE CHIMNEY STANDS ON SOUTH.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

HOUSES IN ERIN MOST BUILT AROUND THE TURN OF CENTURY. THIS HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED EXCEPT ADDITION WAS MADE TO THE BACK.

Houston County · LEATHERWOOD CREEK

IS ONE OF 3 BRICK HOUSES BUILT WHAT IS NOW HOUSTON COUNTY EARLY 1800'S. THIS HOUSE, LIKE AT LEAST ONE OF OTHER 3, SERVED AS STAGECOACH STOP. WHO BUILT UNKNOWN. PRESENT OWNERS HAVE LOWERED CEILINGS & PANELLED. A PORCH ON BACK DOOR OF HOUSE.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

ONE OF MANY HOUSES IN ERIN THAT WERE BUILT AROUND THE TURN OF CENTURY IS STILL IN USE. THIS WAS BUILT WITH 12' BY 12' OAK SEALS, AND 4' BY 12' POPLAR FLOOR JOISTS.SQUARE NAILS WERE USED IN BUILDINGTHIS HOUSE.

Houston County · HWY 149

1 OF FOUR STRUCTURES IN CO BUILT WHEN THIS WAS STILL NORTH CAROLINA. DR. B.M. CARTER BOUGHT HOME IN 1850'S AFTER SELLING HIS INTEREST IN AETNA FURNACE IN HICKMAN COUNTY. HOUSEWAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN STAGECOACH STOP. RAILING ADORNS ROOF OF FRONT PORCH.

Houston County · JOHN BOATDOCK ROAD

STRUCTURE AS SEEN IN THE PICTURE IS ONLY PART OF WHAT WAS DESCRIBED AS A MANSION. THIS WAS ONLY A PORTION, SALVAGED WHEN KENTUCKY LAKE FLOODED ORIGINAL HOME SITE. WAS MENTIONED IN GOODSPEEDS BECAUSE MEN WHO ROBBED MANSION WERE SOME OF THE FIRST MEN

Houston County · DANCER BRANCH

1 OF LATER COUNTRY HOUSES CONSTRUCTED W/ LOGS & NOW WEATHER- BOARDED AND EXTENDED. CHIMNEYS AND FOUNDATION BUILT WITH LIMESTONE ROCK. NO PICTURE WAS INCLUDED WITH THIS FILE.

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BUILT BY EX-UNION SOLDIER CA.1865. ADDITION BUILT OF POPLAR PLANKS. BUILT USING LOGS IN WESTERN PORTION. EXTERIOR "GINGERBREAD" CARPENTRY D1 BY A LOCAL CARPENTER, NAMED CANTRELL."GINGERBREAD" DECORATIONS ON FRONT GABLE AND UNDERNEATH PORCH ROOF.

Houston County · OFF GUICES CREEK ROAD

EXTENDED FROM ORIGINAL NUCLEUS. HOWEVER, UNLIKE MOST HOUSES, HOUSE'S ORIGINAL PORTION IS FRAME & NOT LOGS. POPLAR USED THROUGHOUT ORIGINAL STRUCTURE. STONE CHIMNEY IS ALSO ORIGINAL ADDITION ON SOUTH END HAS A BELLCAST STYLE ROOF.

Houston County · PATTERSON BR.

2-STORY FRAME FARM HOUSENEAR ROSS NATIVE LIMESTONE CHIMNEYS ARE DRESSED. MATERIALS USED FOR BUILDING WERE PLANNED BY HAND. ROOF FOR REAR ELL IS BELLCAST STYLE, AND IS MADE OF METAL.

Houston County · DANDER BRANCH

REPRESENTS STRUCTURE USED BY SOME COUNTY GOVERNMENTS TO FORD SHALLOWSTREAMS. SE WOODEN BRIDGES ARE BEING REPLACED BY CONCRETE STRUCTURES (CONCRETE LOW-WATER BRIDGES). BRIDGE CONSISTS OF TWO BOARDS IN A SHALLOW CREEK.

Houston County · TENNESSEE RIDGE, HIGHWAY 147

TN Historic Resource Survey record HO-89

Houston County · SALMON BR.

WEATHERBOARD COUNTRY STRUCTURE W/ PARTLY CLOSED DOGTROT. BUILT PRIOR TO 1900. NO PICTURE WAS INCLUDED WITH THIS FILE.

Houston County · MARKET STREET

ONE OF PROBABLY SIX HOUSES BUILT ON MARKET ST AROUND TURN OF CENTURY. PORCH IS GABLED TWICE OVER TWO FRONT WINDOWS.

Houston County · WHITE OAK

2STORY FRAME FARM HOUSE BUILT AROUND TURN OF CENTURY. HOUSE HAS RECENTLY BEEN RENOVATED. UNPAINTED FOR MANY YRS, NOW IS PAINT-ED YELLOW. IS KNOWN LOCALLY AS ROSS HOUSE. PORCH HAS A RAILING AROUND TOP OF ROOF.

Houston County · GUICE'S CREEK RD.

CENTER PORTION IS SCHOOL THAT SERVED ELLIS MILLS COMMUNITY.MOVED HERE IN 1934. OTHER WINGS BUILT LATER. NO DATE ON ELLIS MILLS SCHOOL. THIS STRUCTURE REPRESENTS CON-SOLIDATED COUNTRY SCHOOL BEFORE CONSOLIDATION. NO PICTURE WAS INCLUDED WITH THIS FILE.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

IS OLDEST CHURCH BUILDING ER& POSSIBLY ENTIRE COUNTY. CONSTRUCTED BY CONGREGATION FOR $2500.00. POINTED WINDOWS AND A TOWER AT FRONT OF BUILDING.

Houston County · SPRING AND WALNUT STREETS

IT APPEARS TO BE UNUSUAL ARCHITECTURE, BUT SEVERAL MORE CHURCHES OF THE SAME STYLE WERE ERECTED BY METHODIST CHURCHES USING THE SAME PLANS WITH SOME CHANGES FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL CHURCH.

Houston County · 708 McMillan St.

Erin Limekilns in Erin, Houston. Listed on the National Register 2004-11-10.

Houston County · OWL HOLLOW RD.

HOUSE IN ERIN THAT IS OVER 50 YEARS OF AGE.

Houston County · MARKET STREET

ONE OF SIX HOUSES ON MARKET STREET PROBABLY CONSTRUCTED AROUND TURN OF CENTURY.

Houston County · LEWIS BRANCH ROAD

BUILT BY FRANK CONNELL FOR $10000. MR. AVERITT BOUGHT IN 1920 FOR $5000. BOUGHT BY SOUTHL& LIME CO. IN 1926. COMPANY WENT BROKE IN 1927. SOLD TO NASHVILLE BANK FOR $1.25. BOUGHT BACK BY MR. AVERITT FOR $400-600. NO PICTURE WAS INCLUDED IN FILE.

Houston County · RAILROAD STREET

1 OF FOUR HOUSES IN ROW ON RAILROAD STREET BUILT BEFORE OR AT TURN OF CENTURY. BY TRADITION IS OLDER THAN MORRISON HOUSE NEXT TO IT.DECORATIONS UNDERNEATH THE PORCH ROOF LEDGE AND ON THE PORCH SUPPORTS.

Houston County · FRONT STREET

SECOND OLDEST BRICK DWELLING IN ERIN. HOUSE WAS BEING BUILT WHEN SOME HOSPITAL CARS FROM MEMPHIS WHICH WERE CARRING YELLOW FEVER VIC-TIMS WERE SIDETRACKED IN ERIN. THAT WAS 1878. STRUCTURE CONTAINS ORIGINAL YELLOW POPLAR FLOORS. WALLS ARE 13" THICK

Houston County · HIGHWAY 149

2-STORY FRAME HOUSE- POPLAR CARPENTRY WORK & BUILDING DONE BY JIM TOM RIDINGS AND DAVID MacNICHOLS. ONE OF POSSIBLY 3 BUILDINGS STEWART BUILT AROUND 1900 OR BEFORE.ONE GABLE FACES ROAD, WHILE TWO SYMMETRICAL GABLES FACE SIDE.

Houston County · ROUTE #1, ERIN

ORIGINAL ONE-ROOM LOG STRUCTURE WAS CRIB IN OLD TANYARD WAS LOCATED HERE. LOGS IN THE UPPER AND LOWER STOREYS OF STRUCTURE CAME FROM HOTEL LOCATED ON HILL ACROSS THE HIGHWAY. SOUTH CHIMNEY ALSO CAME FROM HOTEL WHEN IT WAS TORN DOWN. THE DRESSED

Houston County · OFF McKEWEN HIGHWAY

TYPICAL OF COUNTRY HOUSES BUILT ABOUT A CENTURY AGO, BUILT WITH LOGSAND LIMESTONE CHIMNEYS. ALSO TYPICAL IS THE FACT THAT THE DOG-TROT HAS BEEN ENCLOSED AND THE HOUSE WEATHERBOARDED. ONE OF THE HOUSE'S HUGE BEAMS IS BROKEN AND CANNOT BE REPAIRED EASILY

Houston County · JUDY BRANCH

PICTURE OF ORIGINAL SHAPE OF LOG STRUCTURES BEFORE THEY WERE EXTEN- DED AND WEATHERBOARDED. CABINS BUILT IN LATE 1800'S HAD STEEPER ROOFS, AS THIS ONE DOES, THAN THOSE BUILT EARLIER IN CENTURY. THIS IS ONE OF FEW LEFT IN COUNTY THAT HAS NOT BEEN AL-

Houston County · LEWIS BRANCH

LOW WATER BRIDGES HAVE EXISTED IN THIS COUNTY FOR HALF A CENTURY. UP UNTIL A YEAR AGO THESE WERE ALL WOODEN STRUCTURES. THIS ONE IS ONE OF THE FIRST MADE OF CONCRETE IN HOUSTON COUNTY.

Houston County · BUCKEYE ROAD, ERIN

THE POLES WERE DRIVEN BY T.V.A. IN 1946. T.V.A. HELPED WITH CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE IT IS LOCATED IN THE CUMBERLAND RIVER FLOOD BASIN. SEVERAL IN THE COUNTY HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE SAME WAY.

Houston County · OFF BARBER HIGHWAY

EXAMPLE OF LOG STRUCTURES OF ONE AND ONE HALF STORIES THAT WERE PRE-VALENT IN COUNTY IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES.

Houston County · Main St.

Harris, V. R., House in Erin, Houston. Listed on the National Register 1983-08-18.

Houston County · Herman Clark Road 984

Located on a 129-acre parcel. The Herman Clark Farmstead is rare example of a Folk Victorian I-house in Houston County. Herman Clark lived at the house with extended family and worked as a farmer (1940 U.S. Federal Census).

Houston County · FRONT STREET

ONE OF 5 HOUSES ROW ALONG SOUTH SIDE OF TRACK ERTHAT ARE OVER 50 YRS OLD. ROOF LOOKS AS IF IT COULD BE EITHER STANDARD GABLE (01) OR GAM- BREL(07). NO PICTURE WAS FOUND IN FILE, VISUAL FILE WAS TAKEN FROM NEGATIVE.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN, TN

REPRESENTATIVE OF MANY STILL STANDING IN ERIN WERE BUILT BY LOCAL CARPENTERS AROUND 1900. ORIGINAL OUTSIDE TRIMMING STILL INTACT. THISWAS ALSO WORK OF LOCAL CARPENTERS.

Houston County · JONES BRANCH OFF SALAMON BR. ROAD

TYPICAL OF HOUSES WHICH HAVE EVOLVED FROM NUCLEUS OF LOGS.EXTENDED TO BACK. ORIGINAL PORTION IS PERHAPS ENTIRE FRONT, BOTH UPSTAIRS & DOWNSTAIRS, MADE OF LOGS.ONE DORMER ON FRONT OF HOUSE.

Houston County · LONG BRANCH ROAD

FRAME COUNTRY HOUSE W/ STONE CHIMNEY IN CENTER. DATE OF CONSTRUCTION NOT KNOWN.NO PICTURE WAS INCLUDED WITH THIS FILE.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, ERIN

ONE OF THE HOUSES IN ERIN CONSTRUCTED AROUND 1920S AND REMAIN STANDING.

Houston County · KENTUCKY LAKE

ELEVATOR IS 5 STORIES. BUILT BY L&N RAILROAD TO SUPPLY COMMUNITIES ALONG RIVER. .PEANUTS, ETC. COULD BE STORED HERE UNTIL RIVER BARGE WOULD PICK THEM UP FOR DISTRIBUTION. STRUCTURE IS KENTUCKY LAKE.USED BY TVTO TIE UP BOATS.

Houston County · LOWER WHITE OAK

ONLY BRIDGE OF STEEL IN HOUSTON COUNTY. MOVED TO PRESENT LOCATION FROM SOME OTHER SITE IN 1946. STRUCTURE ITSELF IS MUCH OLDER. RE- PLACED ANOTHER BRIDGE REMOVED BY TVA BECAUSE IT WAS IN A TVA FLOOD CONTROL AREA.

Houston County · WALNUT STREET

REPRESENTS STYLE OF HOUSE BUILT IN ERIN AROUND TURN OF THE CENTURY.

Houston County · MAIN STREET, DRIN

ONE OF SEVERAL HOUSES BUILT AROUND THE TURN OF CENTURY IN ERIN. "GINGER BREAD" DETAILING STILL ATTACHED.

Houston County · HWY 49 WEST OF THE COURTHOUSE

LOCATION AND REMAINS OF NO.1 KILN OF FORMER RAUCHER LIME CO. AND SOUTHLAND LIME COMPANY. ONE OF FIVE REMAINING KILNS OUT OF ELEVEN THAT ONCE OPERATED. KILN WAS OPERATED CONTINOUSLY FROM 1870'S UNTIL YEAR OF CRASH, 1929. LIME BUSINESS WAS STARTED UP

Houston County · OFF ELLIS MILLS ROAD

COMPLEX OF 3 BUILDINGS USED BY BLACKS ELLIS MILLS COMMUNITY. COVERED W/ SIDING, VACANT, A.M.E. BUILT 1910.SERVICES STOPPED HERE AFTER 1945. NEWER CHURCH IS DORTCH CHAPEL BUILT 1945. BOTH BUILDINGS BUILT OF OAK & FILE CONTAINS THREE SEPERATE HOUSES.

Houston County · RAILROAD STREET

BUILT AROUND TURN OF CENTURY. ONE OF FOURIN A ROW ON RAILROAD ST. EXTERIOR RAFTERS SCOLLOPED. SILLS-TEN INCH SQUARE. FRONT ELL, GABLE FACING FRONT. PORCH IS IN THE CROOK OF THE ELL. HOUSE IS WEATHERBOARDED IN PLACES.

Houston County · ON TRACKS

LAST STRUCTURE REMAINING AROUND WHAT ONCE WAS THE RAILROAD STATION "HUB" IN ERIN. STRUCTURE HAS BEEN USED AMONG OTHER THINGS AS A RES- TAURANT KNOWN LOCALLY AS THE "GREASY SPOON"