Built in 1778, this landmark was the home of Captain Christopher Taylor, a Revolutionary War officer and a State of Franklin leader. Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, boarded here in 1788 while practicing law in Jonesborough. Originally located two miles west of town, the house was later brought here as a public heritage project by the Jonesborough Civic Trust and the Town of Jonesborough, through the generosity of the Judge David Vines and Frank Hawkins families, the Tennessee Historic Commission, and the Department of the Interior.