Out Franklin Road

<p><strong><em>Out Franklin Road</em></strong> 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.</p>