Smith Farmhouse

James Hyfel Smith, born in 1788, and his wife Lucy Greer Smith, born in 1793, had eleven children and ran a store in Pasquo. The house passed down through their sons George Washington, Walter Sparel and Charles Benjamin Smith and finally to a grandson, Charles Randall Mungovan. It was added to the National Register on November 17, 1983, with the boundary enlarged in 1991. The 53 acres that remain are what is left of the original 98-acre farm. Smith ran a store in Pasquo.

What the plaque says

Smith Farmhouse In 1815, James Hifle Smith (1788-1845) and wife, Lucy Greer Smith (1793-1872), came to Pasquotank, Tennessee from Virginia. They built a 1-½- story single-pen log house on this site and opened a general store, which operated until 1975. The farmhouse shows the evolution of three distinct architectural styles. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, it depicts early Tennessee log construction practices and the influence of the Greek Revival, Victorian, and Bungalow periods of design.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carnton — 11 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Fisk University and Jubilee Hall — 14 mi
  The 1866 school for freed people whose Jubilee Singers paid for Jubilee Hall, a National Historic Landmark, and whose students helped start Nashville's sit-ins.
• Fort Negley — 14 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.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 14 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

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