Beech Grove (Nashville, Tennessee)

The land belonged to Elisha Sherrill until 1801, when Hugh Allison acquired 200 acres.^[3] Allison, who served on the Davidson County Court, owned ten African slaves.^[3] He lived on the farm with his wife, Lydia Harrison Allison, and their five children.^[3] When he died in 1835, one of his sons, Thomas Jefferson Allison, inherited the farm.^[3] He acquired more land, expanding to 1,150 acres.^[3] Additionally, he owned 22 African slaves by 1840 and 53 slaves by 1860.^[3] As a result, the farm became a Southern plantation.^[3] Allison lived on the plantation with his wife Tabitha and their six children.^[3]

The two-storey log house was built for the Allison family by Thomas Jones and Caleb Lucas,^[2] two carpenters, circa 1850.^[3] It was designed in the Greek Revival architecture.^[3]

During the Civil War, half the slaves ran away via the railroad.^[3] After the war, the remaining 20 former slaves, now freedmen, worked on the property as tenant farmers.^[3] Meanwhile, Allison and his wife continued to live in the house until he died in 1897 and she died in 1910.^[3]

Subsequently, the property was inherited by Allison's granddaughter, Allie Morton and her husband, Sam.^[3] They turned it into a livestock farm.^[3] In the 1920s, they redesigned the house in the Colonial Revival architectural style.^[3] The Mortons sold the house in 1975.^[3] It was later purchased by the Kacki family in 1993.^[3]

It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 8, 2007.^[2]