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Bonaventure: Offshoot of Honeywood Farm
Corner of Harding Rd. and Belle Meade BL Nashville, TN Circa 1911. Large red brick home Charles Clay Trabue (1872-1942) and Julia Malone Trabue (1874-1976) built Bonaventure on 15 acres facing Harding Pike that had been part of the Honeywood estate of Julia’s parents, Thomas and Ellen Malone. A farm road along the back of the property became the main entrance to Belle Meade Blvd in 1913 and was a second entrance to the farm. The home shared a southern border with Johnson Bran
Jay Brothers
Dec 14, 20222 min read


Honeywood - the Malone farm: Entrance to the future Belle Meade Blvd.
Current 222 Belle Meade BL - off Richland-Harding Pike (now Harding Rd.) Nashville, TN Circa 1888. Honeywood was owned by Judge Thomas Henry Malone (1834-1906) and Ellen W. Fall Malone (1843-1898). He was admitted to the bar in 1859 and became a member of the firm Houston, Vaughn and Malone. He practiced there until the Civil War at which point he served in the Confederate States of America army. He was married to Ellen Fall in 1866. After the Civil War, he resumed his law ca
Jay Brothers
Aug 7, 20222 min read

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