Various Historical Photographs of Kingston Springs, Tennessee and surrounding areas in Cheatham County
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| Downtown Kingston Springs in 1970 |
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| Late 1800's ad for the Kingston Springs Hotel |
This photo, taken in 1988, shows my dad (David Hutcherson Sr.) and I (DJ Hutcherson) standing next to the truck we had just bought from our Dog Creek Road neighbors Angela and Joey Judd. This was the first truck we used to haul canoes and customers to and from the river. The old motel that once stood on Highway 70 in Shacklett from 1940 to 1993 can be seen in the background. It was first known as "Ham's Motel & Cafe", then "The Star Motel" in the 1960's, up until 1978, which is the year my mother bought the hotel, renovating it and renaming it "The Narrows of the Harpeth Motel". In 1986, the motel caught fire, and every one of the 12 rooms were destroyed or damaged beyond repair...so, my parents decided it would be a good idea to give up the motel business for good and give the canoe rental business a try with the creation of Foggy Bottom Canoe Rental in 1987, much to Tip-a-Canoe's dismay...
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This photo, taken around the year 1900, shows a group of sight seers gathered above and beside the back side of the Montgomery Bell Narrows of the Harpeth Tunnel. Bell built the tunnel in 1818 - 1819, for the purpose of using the water power to power an iron forge operation at the site, which he named "Pattison Forge".
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| Postcard of Hamm's Motel & Cafe - On Highway 70 in Shacklett - Circa 1940's |
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Downtown Kingston Springs - Shriners' Drum & Bugle Corp. marching in a parade, sometime in the 1960's or 1970's
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| Two horses pulling a buggie with possible guests of the Kingston Springs Hotel, which is seen behind them. |
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Harpeth River Picnic: August 25, 1895
This photo was taken where modern day Burns Park is located,
with the old bridge in the background.
Back Row L- R : M. Gray (sitting), (standing) Hays Hickman, Minnie Johnson, Mattie Thompson, Lena Meadow next row,(sitting) Minnie Ham, Daisy Ament, John Bell Gray, B. West, Jessy Gray, Robert Thompson.
1970's photo of The Farm House in Kingston Springs. It was located on Luyben Hills Road in the area where The Kingston Springs Animal Hospital & Petro are today.
Photo courtesy of Wanda Boggs Baker.
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Late 1800's newspaper ad for the Kingston Springs Hotel
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This is what was known as a "photographic" locomotive, which is seen here passing slowly over the huge trestle that had just recently been completed over Sullivan's Branch Creek, which empties into Turnbull Creek nearby. Taken sometime around 1864, the sole purpose of the train in the photo, was to travel to all strategically important bridges and other structures that were valuable to the Union and take detailed photographs of said bridges and buildings, as they raced to complete this railroad from Johnsonville on the Tennessee River in the west to Downtown Nashville, where the supplies that had been shipped on this new railroad would then be transferred to the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, bound for General Sherman and his men.
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Kingston Springs Post Office. "Hillard Liles worked at the post office most of his life and served as magistrate for many years. Ladies shown include: Percy Beard, Ada Duncan & Odell Whited. The Post Office was established on October 6, 1865. Zachariah Payne was the town's first appointed postmaster."
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The Kingston Springs Hotel building, built in the 1890's.
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| Above - 57 years separate the two photo's in this combined image I put together. The photo on the left was taken in 1960, and shows Mrs. Lillian Ham Judd, with three of her great grandsons, Alan, Jerry, and John Hall in front of her home - the old Judd home place located on Cedar Hill Road near Scott Cemetery. "Ma Judd" was Joey Judd's Great Grandmother. The photo on the right is a recent photo I took from approximately the same location and perspective as the 1960 photo. |
The photo on the left was taken some time during the Civil War Era, and the photo on the right was taken by me around 160 years later in 2022.
