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Riggs Cross Roads stood at the crossing of Fishing Ford or Riggs Road, the oldest traveled thoroughfare in Middle Tennessee, and old Columbia or Flat Creek Road. The old village compound included a brick house, post office, blacksmith shop, and store on about 1000 acres expanded by Gideon Riggs from the 555 acres recorded in 1811 by his father, David Riggs of North Carolina. It was also the scene of General Forrest's Civil War headquarters. Gideon Riggs married three times, with descendants through Mary Reynolds, Sophia Campbell, and Mary Catherine Holden in the Ogilvie, Haley, Brittain, Duggan, Fuller, and Riggs families.
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