Highland View

For 100 years, the Cator-McClanahan plantation was the focal point of life for the inhabitants of this area. Levin Cator developed the land in 1823, and it became known as Highland View. His son Moses inherited it in 1848 and developed the farm into a self-sustaining southern plantation. Near here stood the Cator Mansion, built by Moses in 1862 and destroyed by a chimney fire in 1913. The plantation was ravaged but not destroyed by troops during the Civil War, and Moses restored the property soon after the end of hostilities. In 1882, Moses' only surviving child, Ophelia, married William McClanahan, and they were given control of the plantation. Economic pressures in the 1920s and early 1930s brought a slow end to the plantation and its way of life.

Brentwood, Tennessee · United States