The Robert C. Saxon House, otherwise known as the Octagon or Gravel House, was an eight-sided stone residence built in 1856 on the knoll east of here. On May 17, 1864, a rear guard action between Cheatham’s Div., Hardee’s A. C., and Newton’s 2d Div., 4th A. C., was fought along this road. Eight Tenn. Regts. of Wright’s, Maney’s, and Vaughan’s brigades posted here defended it during several hours of musketry and artillery fire before withdrawing at midnight. The 73d Illinois Regt. burned the house the next day.