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If that street had a name, we would be surprised, as it was just a stretch of the Immigrant Trail laid out by Peter Avery in 1787.

There were only a few people living here and no town to speak of.

That changed when Hart purchased several acres of land from the estate of Major Thomas Donoho. Donoho had received 4,800 acres of land from the state of North Carolina in lieu of money for his service to that state鈥檚 militia during the 性视界APPn Revolution.

Prior to Hart鈥檚 arrival, a small cluster of log homes were built on the rise of land to the east of Little Goose Creek, where East Main Street runs today.

That early community was called 鈥楧amascus.鈥�

Hart took his land and laid out a town 鈥� which conveniently enough was named after him.

But the street we call 鈥楤roadway鈥� was not a part of the town.

Hart鈥檚 town lay to the south of Little Goose Creek.

Hart owned all the land between the creek and the Cumberland River, and he was quick to place a ferry on the river.

He also purchased a grist mill from the Donoho family.

In July of 1798, Sumner County officials received the following letter, 鈥淭o the worshipful Court of Sumner County according to an Order of Court put into our hands, we the under named 性视界APPrs Met upon the 28th of July, viewed Mark鈥檇 and Laid off a Road beginning at Harts Ferry being near said Hart鈥檚 house along his lane Crossing the West fork of Goose Creek about five poles below Donoho鈥檚 Mill Dam thence Leaving William Cathey鈥檚 about one quarter of a mile to the Left hand then Crossing a Small fork of Goose Creek about the mouth of Clendening鈥檚 Spring Branch, Continuing on till it joins the Kentucky Road a small distance South of Richard Britain鈥檚 House.鈥�

The letter was signed by Elias Donoho, Daniel Mungle, Richard Britain, Daniel Alexander, John Kerr and James Hart.

That road ran from Hart鈥檚 Ferry on the Cumberland River up present day Cemetery Road and connected with River Street and thence to town.

There it crossed Little Goose Creek, just below Donoho鈥檚 Mill Dam, and up present day Broadway turning left about where the depot is and then to present day Willard Road and thence to Glasgow, Kentucky.

It likely followed the flat land next to the creek where the old train track ran, coming out about where G and L Garden Center is today.

Donoho鈥檚 Mill Dam would have supplied the water pressure to run Donoho鈥檚 grist mill, one of the first businesses in Trousdale County. It stood just to the west of our present day bridge over Little Goose Creek.

As James Hart developed his town by selling building lots, he sweetened the deal by donating land for a Union church and for a school house.

A 鈥淯nion church" was a church building used by several different congregations. They used it in "union" with each other.

That church stood on the appropriately named Church Street.

So, our Broadway was originally known as the Kentucky Road.

Main Street in James Hart鈥檚 town became the business district as more and more people moved to this area and as homes were built up and down River Street.

Church Street, though named for our first church, was not built to accommodate that building.

When teams of oxen had trouble pulling the steep incline on River Street, a street with an easier incline, was laid out. That would become Church Street.

There was no development on Broadway because it was subject to flooding 鈥� in fact, the whole town was subject to flooding!

But, because the area north of the creek was lower than the street level of Main Street, it flooded every time it rained, while town only flooded when the river backed up after torrential rains or after several days of heavy rain.

That is why, to this day, we call it "backwater."

John Oliver is the Trousdale County Historian.