Flagpole Campground / Pinewood Road

During the 1890s, Williamson County experienced a religious awakening under the “Holiness Movement.” Advocates of the “second blessing” and “entire sanctification” met at Flagpole Campground during the first two weeks of August from 1897 until 1921. William Burr Stinson, W. W. Wall, and M. A. Meacham, trustees of the Middle Tennessee Holiness Association, acquired the 5 acre site at Flagpole, one of the highest points on the Western Highland Rim, for brush arbor and large tent meetings. In 1926, J. C. and Malinda Rainey Green donated land for Green's Chapel Methodist Church, a congregation organized in 1877 in the Coldwater community. The original church burned in 1981, and the present building was rebuilt on the same lot. Pinewood Road, situated along the Tennessee River Divide, historically connected Leiper's Fork with Samuel Graham's manufacturing settlement on the Piney River in Hickman County, known as Pinewood. On the south side of Pinewood Road are the headwaters of Lick Creek, Shoals Branch, Younger Creek, and Barren Fork, which flow into the Duck River, while on the north side flow the waters of Arkansas, Kelley, Copperas, and Caney Fork into the South Harpeth River. Hardwood forests of oak, poplar, chestnut, and hickory were the area's richest natural resources. Historical families of the area included Pewitt, Green, Kelley, Moore, Gordon, Sullivan, Stinson, Anglin, Harris, Walker, Rainey, Southern, Edwards, Mangrum, Hendricks, Lampley, Daugherty, Barnhill, Capley, Moss, Beard, Edwards, and Bradford.

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