Route 1 (corner of Zion Rd. and Canaan Rd.) Columbia, TN Circa 1818. 2-story wood frame Federal home Dr. Samuel Mayes (1759-1849) and Mary Frierson Mayes (1776-1855) constructed the place. Samuel and Mary wed in 1797. They were part of a large migration of Scot-Irish settlers who moved from South Carolina to southern middle Tennessee and what became Maury County. They settled in what became the Zion community south of Columbia. Dr. Mayes purchased 5,000 acres of land from a g