Building on the Cumberland: The Bradford Homestead

An artist's rendering of workers constructing a red brick wall on a grassy hillside, surrounded by lush green trees. Several laborers work near a small brick kiln in the foreground while others lay stone and brick along the rising structure in the background, depicting the frontier craftsmanship used to build the first brick home in the area now known as Hendersonville, Tennessee.

By the time Henry Bradford settled on Drake’s Creek in Sumner County around 1794, he had already survived more than most men would face in a lifetime. A fatherless childhood in Virginia. The Revolutionary War. A wound at Brandywine. A deadly ambush on the Wilderness Road. But Henry Bradford was not a man who simply […]

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