Mooreland has been threatened several times over the decades but remains standing. The home was started in 1838 by Robert I. and Martha Clay Moore and is off Franklin Pike at 7100 Executive Center Dr.
Moore’s maternal grandfather was awarded a Revolutionary War land grant, and his parents settled on the land in 1807. Moore, a North Carolina native and widower, had been married to Isabella Caldwell Harlan Moore (she was part of the illustrious Harlan family of Kentucky including U.S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan).
Moore erected the two-story home and increased the farm to 650 acres. He was one of the early settlers in northern Williamson county. Moore had become a prosperous merchant and was involved in real estate in downtown Nashville. Robert died prior to completion of the mansion (his brother Alexander completed it)…