Gallatin

Rose Mont is a Greek Revival style house built in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. It was built by Judge Josephus Conn Guild for... his family in 1828 and completed in 1842. Once the site of the area's largest thoroughbred horse farm with 500 acres , it is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rosemont. In 1993 the property was purchased by the City of Gallatin and the Rose Mont Restoration Foundation, and is open to the public. Rose Mont, with an architecture blend of Greek Revival and Palladian, was built by Judge Josephus Conn Guild for his family in Gallatin. It was begun in 1828 and completed in 1842. All of the materials used during the construction were obtained on the site of the home. During this period, most Middle Tennessee homes were square Federal or Georgian style houses with a front entry hall containing a staircase to the second floor. Judge Guild had traveled frequently to Louisiana and was influenced by the Creole-Style homes built there.
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Trousdale Place, located in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, is the former home of John H. Bowen, local attorney and member of the United States... House of Representatives. The home was built circa 1813 by Bowen. In 1822, the house was purchased by Governor of Tennessee William Trousdale. In 1899, Annie Berry Trousdale, daughter-in-law of William Trousdale, deeded the home to Clark Chapter #13 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to honor all veterans and in particular, veterans of the Confederacy. Then the mansion became known as The Trousdale Place. Today the house shares its grounds with the Sumner County Museum and is open to the public for tours by appointment. William Trousdale was a veteran of the War of 1812, Creek War, Seminole War, and U.S.-Mexican War. He was named Brigadier General by President James K. Polk in 1848. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1849 to 1852.
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Bill Allen was an American radio disc jockey who attained fame from the 1950s through the 1990s for playing rhythm and blues and black gospel music... on Nashville radio station WLAC. Allen was the youngest of a quartet of disc jockeys known as "The 50,000 Watt Quartet." It included Gene Nobles, "John R." , and Herman Grizzard. Allen had the longest career of any. He worked for radio stations for 45 years before his 1993 retirement. Like Richbourg, from the 1960s through the 1980s, Allen was involved with Nashville's small but vibrant blues and gospel music scenes. Allen was reared in the small town of Gallatin, some 35 miles northeast of Nashville, by an African-American domestic who worked for his grandparents. She was primarily responsible for his nurturing and upbringing, which included taking the young boy to church with her on Sundays. This was where Allen grew to love gospel music. Because of their closeness, Allen identified primarily with black youngsters as playmates and peers, an orientation unusual in the segregated South.
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