During the 1800's, this stone served as a mile marker along the route that is now U.S. Highway 70S. Before European settlement in the area, Native Americans knew the route as the Black Fox Trail. In the 1800's, the road was known as the Broadway of America and later as the Woodbury-Murfreesboro Turnpike. The stone originally stood about 5½ miles west of Woodbury and ½ mile north of present-day Highway 70S. During construction of the present courthouse in 1935-1936, historian Sterling Brown found the mile marker and moved it to the courthouse grounds. In 2011, county executive Mike Gannon had the stone placed in its present prominent location as part of the courthouse square revitalization project.