Rose Mont

Catherine Blackmore and her husband Josephus Conn Guild built Rose Mont about 1842 on their 500-acre plantation, and their descendants lived there until the City of Gallatin acquired the property in 1993. A grove of trees 150 yards southwest of the house often hosted political rallies. Guild, a politician, attorney orator, judge, and author, served five terms in the Tennessee General Assembly, four in the House and one in the Senate. He was a Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers in the Seminole War of 1836. During the 1850’s, he promoted construction of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad through Sumner and Davidson Counties. In 1862, the Federal Army imprisoned him at Fort Mackinac, Michigan, for his prosecessionist views. Six months later, he took an oath of loyalty to the Union and returned to Gallatin. Guild then practiced law in Nashville before becoming judge of the law court there, serving from 1870 to 1877.

Gallatin, Tennessee · United States