History
The land belonged to Elisha Sherrill until 1801, when Hugh Allison acquired 200 acres. [3] Allison, who served on the Davidson County Court, owned ten African slaves. [3] He lived on the farm with his wife, Lydia Harrison Allison, and their five children. [3] When he died in 1835, one of his sons, Thomas Jefferson Allison, inherited the farm. [3] He acquired more land, expanding to 1,150 acres. [3] Additionally, he owned 22 African slaves by 1840 and 53 slaves by 1860. [3] As a result, the farm became a Southern plantation. [3] Allison lived on the plantation with his wife Tabitha and their six children. [3]
The two-storey log house was built for the Allison family by Thomas Jones and Caleb Lucas, [2] two carpenters, circa 1850. [3] It was designed in the Greek Revival architecture. [3]
During the Civil War, half the slaves ran away via the railroad. [3] After the war, the remaining 20 former slaves, now freedmen, worked on the property as tenant farmers. [3] Meanwhile, Allison and his wife continued to live in the house until he died in 1897 and she died in 1910. [3]
Subsequently, the property was inherited by Allison's granddaughter, Allie Morton and her husband, Sam. [3] They turned it into a livestock farm. [3] In the 1920s, they redesigned the house in the Colonial Revival architectural style. [3] The Mortons sold the house in 1975. [3] It was later purchased by the Kacki family in 1993. [3]
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