Before he built the first brick house in Hendersonville, Henry Bradford was a seventeen-year-old tailor’s apprentice who set down his needle to join the 3rd Virginia Regiment. It’s the story
America turns 250 on July 4, 2026, and in Hendersonville that history is still standing: the Bradford-Berry House, built by a Revolutionary War soldier on Drake’s Creek in Sumner County,
On June 23, 2026, Hendersonville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously to partner with the Bradford-Berry House Preservation Society to preserve and restore the historic 1790s home, with every
It is June, which means it is National Homeownership Month. For most of us, that means a mortgage. For Henry Bradford, it meant a musket. The land that became the
Bradford. Priestley. Willis. Berry. General Electric. The Arts Council. HTPC. The City. Eight names, two and a half centuries, one set of two-foot brick walls—and the long quiet conversation between
