Neill S. Brown 1810-1886 - Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County
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Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County no. 49 - Neill S. Brown 1810-1886.
Waymark Code: WMATG
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 04/18/2006
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Neill S. Brown
1810-1886
Located 125 yards north is the site of Idlewild, home of Neil S. Brown, native of Giles County and fourteenth governor of Tennessee, 1848-1850. The only governor to live in East Nashville, he is credited with naming the city of Edgefield. Appointed United States Minister to Russia in 1850, and in 1870 was a member of the State Constitutional Convention.
Historical Commission of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County
Marker reads the same on both sides.
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Neill S. Brown