Nolensville

William Nolen purchased part of a land grant to Jason Thompson on the site where Nolensville was later built. In the early 1800s, a large migration from Rockingham, N.C., brought the Adams, Allen, Barnes, Cyrus, Fields, Glenn, Irion, Johnson, Peay, Scales, Taylor, Vernon, Wisener, and other families to the area. Built along Mill Creek, the town was incorporated in 1839. During the Civil War, foraging and skirmishing took place there, Gen. John Wharton's Confederate cavalry unit was stationed in town briefly, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler's command captured a Union supply train there on December 30, 1862. Several buildings in the business district burned in 1953, and Nolensville was re-incorporated in 1996.

Nolensville, Tennessee · United States