Haysborough, Tennessee, originally Fort Union, also spelled Haysboro, is an extinct settlement of the United States that was founded around 1780 and was abandoned within 100 years. [1] Haysborough was located "about seven miles from Nashville, on the Gallatin pike...on the Cumberland. A two-story frame building called the Haysborough tavern, a blacksmith shop, a grocery and some cabins made the town." [2]
Haysborough was Fort Union when middle Tennessee was still known as the Cumberland District of North Carolina. [3] Haysborough was established around 1780 by the pioneer Hays family. [1] Col. Robert Hays later married one of the daughters of John Donelson. [1] Rachel Robards may have lived with this sister during an interlude in her troubled marriage to Lewis Robards. [1] The Tennessee state legislature passed "An Act to establish a town by the name of Haysborough, on a north bluff of the Cumberland river in Davidson county" in 1799. [4]
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, ferries for crossing the Cumberland "could be had on either side of the river day or night. These ferries were owned by Oliver Johnson. Later Francis Prince and Richard Boyd bought them in 1806. Robt. Mately surveyed them and moved them, so as to be nearer and more convenient to Haysborough. At this time Haysborough was a wide awake little place." According to an 1884 history, "[Andrew] Jackson received his mail from here, and in some of his letters he speaks of meeting friends on the streets of Haysborough. The general and many of the Nashville people visited there often. Now as a town it exists only in written records, or in the minds of old residents of Nashville, who probably can recall it with memories of a gala day. The young men of Nashville would charter a keel boat —for that was before the day of steamboats—and, loading it with Nashville boys and girls, would sail away to Haysborough." [5]
Three stagecoach lines stopped at Haysborough in the 1830s. [1] In 1834 the settlement reportedly had "a half dozen families." [1] But when the Nashville and Gallatin Turnpike opened in 1839 and a "cut-off was made between the Williams farm section and the present Amqui...Haysboro [became] a stranger to succeeding generations." [1]
Davidson County is a county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in the heart of Middle Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 715,884, making it the 2nd most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Nashville, the state capital and most populous city.
Gallatin is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 30,278 at the 2010 census and 44,431 at the 2020 census. Named for United States Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, the city was established on the Cumberland River and made the county seat of Sumner County in 1802. It is located about 30.6 miles northeast of the state capital of Nashville, Tennessee.
Middle Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of Tennessee that composes roughly the central portion of the state. It is delineated according to state law as 41 of the state's 95 counties. Middle Tennessee contains the state's capital and largest city, Nashville, as well as Clarksville, the state's fifth largest city, and Murfreesboro, the state's sixth largest city and largest suburb of Nashville. The Nashville metropolitan area, located entirely within the region, is the most populous metropolitan area in the state, and the Clarksville metropolitan area is the state's sixth most populous. Middle Tennessee is both the largest, in terms of land area, and the most populous of the state's three Grand Divisions.
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John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer. After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier. There, together with James Robertson, Donelson co-founded the frontier settlement of Fort Nashborough. This later developed as the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
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The Cherokee–American wars, also known as the Chickamauga Wars, were a series of raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles in the Old Southwest from 1776 to 1794 between the Cherokee and American settlers on the frontier. Most of the events took place in the Upper South region. While the fighting stretched across the entire period, there were extended periods with little or no action.
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