Brunswick House

Description

The origins of Brunswick House date back to the early 1830s, when the Stephen Jones family came to western Tennessee by covered wagon, traveling through the Cumberland Gap from Brunswick County in southern Virginia. Perhaps it was the rolling countryside so reminiscent of southern Virginia that led the family to settle here. Here, the family would put down roots, raise their children, and farm the land. The earliest "homeplace" was built on a high point at the site of a natural spring south of Memphis-Arlington Road and west of Seed Tick Road in Shelby County. Through the property flowed Spott's Creek which over the years became Scott's Creek. Two daughters and seven sons, including Russell Jones were born to the family; all of the sons served in the Army of the Confederacy, with two riding with General Nathan B. Forrest. Returning from the emotional and economic destruction of the war, Russell wanted to have a place of his own on the family landholding. With timber felled from nearby woods, he commenced building a homestead that would become a shelter for himself and his offspring and the heart of a home for generations unborn. "Brunswick House" has been the home to every generation - now five - of the Jones' family since that time. Every generation has added to and enhanced the house. And yet its early character has been lovingly preserved in the original logs that frame the main hallway, in the orchard that Russell Jones cleared by hand to furnish logs for raising the...

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