Current 3710 Westbrook Ave. (just off West End Ave.) Nashville, TN Circa 1809. 2-story brick Federal style. Jonathan Friar Robertson (1769-1814) and Ciddy “Kitty” Davis Robertson (1772-1859) built the home just after the turn of the last century off the old Richland Turnpike. Craighead House is now one of the oldest brick homes in Nashville. They married in 1791. Robertson was a surveyor and the son of James and Charlotte Robertson. At some point, the property became incorpor

8th Ave. North & Dominican Dr. (General site of Freeland's Station) Nashville, TN Circa 1811. Looking from their new home, the Becks had a “buena vista,” a good view in Spanish. They could look north over the fertile bottomlands stretching to the Cumberland River or east toward the highlands near Ft. Nashborough. John Everett Beck, Jr. (1783-1818) and Lavinia Robertson Beck Craighead (1790-1866) built Buena Vista in 1811. They wed in 1808 and resided for a few years at the Ro