Retreat from Nashville

Harlinsdale Farm bred Tennessee Walking Horses for seven decades, and the Harlin family owned it until 2004. That year the City of Franklin bought it for 8 million dollars, and it opened as a public park in 2007. The National Register of Historic Places had listed it in 2006. Its 198 acres hold fourteen contributing buildings, among them the 1935 stable and four Colonial Revival laborers' houses, and horse shows still run on the grounds. Midnight Sun, the stallion that won the World Grand Championship in 1945 and 1946, lived here.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carnton — 2.3 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Fort Negley — 15 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 16 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Ryman Auditorium — 16 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.

More markers nearby

• John Price Buchannan — 0.4 mi
• Liberty and Justice for All, Denied — 0.7 mi
• Liberty and Justice for All, Denied — 0.7 mi
• John H. Eaton — 0.7 mi