Hugh Rogan

The cottage this marker points to has moved. It was taken apart in 1998 and rebuilt at Bledsoe's Fort Historical Park. It is a rare American house modeled on an Irish folk cottage: two rooms of dressed limestone, a straight-line plan thought to bring long life and family harmony, and doors and windows set in matching positions. Rogan left County Donegal in 1775 and brought his wife Nancy and son Bernard to Tennessee more than twenty years after leaving them in Ireland. Area Catholics met in the cottage for services for nearly fifty years.

What the plaque says

Hugh Rogan Two miles east is "Rogana." the stone and brick house built in 1800 by Hugh Rogan (1747-1814). An Irish immigrant, Rogan came to Nashborough with the John Donelson party in 1780 and was a signer of the Cumberland Compact. Noted as a surveyor and Indian fighter, he was given 640 acres near the present site of Vanderbilt University, which he later traded for land in Summer County. Rogana was the Mass station for Catholics of this area until St. Peter's Church was built at Gallatin in 1844.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — 4.4 mi
  A National Historic Landmark log inn at the Bledsoe's Lick springs, beside a Mississippian mound center and tied to the domestic slave trade.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 22 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Ryman Auditorium — 31 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• Tennessee State Capitol — 31 mi
  William Strickland's Greek Revival capitol on Nashville's Capitol Hill, finished in 1859 and built from the bottom up with the labor of enslaved men.

More markers nearby

• Durham's Chapel Rosenwald School — 1.6 mi
• Jonathan Browning — 3.2 mi
• Cragfont — 3.8 mi
• Bledsoe's Fort and Monument — 4.0 mi