Wynnewood

Wynnewood began in 1828 as a stagecoach inn on the Knoxville road, built by A. R. Wynne with William Cage and Stephen Roberts for travelers and for visitors taking the sulphur waters nearby. Two white oak log structures under one roof make a house 110 feet long, called the largest surviving log building in Tennessee. Wynne, who enslaved people, bought out his partners in 1834 and lived here until 1893. The state purchased it in 1970, and it became a National Historic Landmark in 1971. A 2008 tornado wrecked the upper floor, and a restoration reopened it in 2012.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — steps away
  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 — 21 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.
• Fort Negley — 31 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.

More markers nearby

• First Settlers in Middle Tennessee — steps away
• William Brimage Bate — steps away
• Bledsoe's Lick — steps away
• General William Hall — 0.3 mi