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Once a thriving community, Owen Hill was home to Peter, Richard, and Greenberry Owen, pioneer tobacconists who came to Williamson County in 1817. Confederate surgeon Dr. Urban G. Owen began practicing medicine here in 1859. In 1850 this site, on which a two story brick lodge and academy was built, was sold by George C. Kinnard to James S. Ogilvie, C.M. Comsteck, and J.B. Wilson of Owen Hill Lodge No. 172 F&AM, and Rev. Wm. Burns, W.N. Haley, James P. Allison, E.L. Jordan, J.B. Wilson, and Johnson Jordan, trustees of Owen Hill Female Academy. In 1885 the lodge moved to Allisona, and in 1955 to College Grove. Owen Hill’s identity faded in 1952 with the closing of Allison School, a school for Black children since the 1860's.
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