MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Cannonsburgh Village will receive a $50,000 grant from the Tennessee State Museum to support maintenance efforts on the Haynes Museum/Cotton Warehouse, one of several historical structures on the city-owned property.
The Cotton Warehouse is one of the oldest structures at Cannonsburgh Village. Built around the 1870s, it originally served as a cotton warehouse—a nod to the region’s agricultural and industrial roots during the post-Civil War era.
Today, the building houses exhibits that trace life in the Southern U.S. from 1776 to 1876, covering a century of local and regional history. It’s part of the broader Cannonsburgh Village experience, which recreates a 19th-century Tennessee town with such buildings as a schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, general store, doctor’s office, grist mill, village operator for “party line” telephone system, rural church and more…