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• LEIPERS FORK FULL

There are three restaurants right in the town and a couple of others scattered nearby. It is truly a peaceful oasis of hospitality and grace.ĭon’t worry, you won’t go hungry in Leiper’s Fork. Leiper’s Fork is all of this and so much more. Imagine a place where time slows down and everyone is friendly and your worries melt away.Īdd in great food, live music and amazing shopping. Think front porches and rocking chairs and sweet tea.

LEIPERS FORK FULL

Y’all, Leiper’s Fork is chock full of southern charm. Today Leiper’s Fork is on the National Register of Historic Places as an historic district. In the 1990’s a group formed to preserve the town and to keep the historic buildings intact. Hillsboro isn’t quite as memorable is it? The Leiper brothers were two of the early settlers and there is a stream or “fork” that runs through the village. When it was time for the town to establish a post office it was discovered that the name Hillsboro was already in use so the name was changed to Leiper’s Fork. The Benton Family was one of the first to settle here so travelers began to call the area Bentontown. Traders and farmers would return home heading north via the trace after floating their goods downstream on the Mississippi River to be sold in the town of Natchez. The village grew in part because of the continued traffic on the Natchez Trace.

Later came families who had been given land grants as payment for their service in the American Revolution. The history of the town dates back thousands of years to when the Cherokee and Chickasaw lived in this area and were already using the Natchez Trace as a hunting and trading route. It is also just off of the Natchez Trace Parkway. It shares a zip code with nearby Franklin, Tennessee and is about 40 minutes southwest of Nashville. Leiper’s Fork is an unincorporated village in Williamson County, Tn. Ride a Pedego Bike from Franklin to Leiper’s Fork.The Natchez Trace Bridge at Birdsong Hollow.Galleries and Shopping in Leiper’s Fork, Tn.