Cragfont, Highway 25, Gallatin, Sumner County, TN

Significance: The largest of the native stone houses built in the Sumner County area, Cragfont was completed circa 1802. It was the home of General James Winchester, veteran of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee. The home was a center of social life from 1802 until the Civil War.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-53

Survey number: HABS TN-82

Building/structure dates: ca. 1802 Initial Construction

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1802

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