Out Franklin Road

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Out Franklin Road is a brief history of a 60-acre tract of land in Nashville, Tennessee, home of the First Presbyterian Church of Nashville since 1955 and owned by the church since 1949. Since it was part of a North Carolina Land Grant in the 1790s, it has been owned by a succession of interesting and influential Nashville personages, including Judge John Overton, one of the closest friends of Andrew Jackson. Others were wealthy horseman/businessman Van Leer Kirkman, southern financier Rogers Caldwell, and John Hancock Cheek, part of the wealthy Nashville family which originated Maxwell House Coffee.