Their settlement was part of a culture that throughout the Mississippi Valley and its major tributaries, and traded with other groups across the continent.

Artifacts and mounds of the Mississippian culture have been found during development in the Meadowlake subdivision, and at the library site on Concord Road.

When early European-American settlers arrived in this area in the late 1700s from east of the Appalachian Mountains, it was largely being used as a hunting ground by Native American tribes from Georgia and Alabama.

In 1786, soon after the United States gained independence, Creek or Cherokee warriors raided the Mayfield family fort, at a site that is now the intersection of Wilson Pike and Old Smyrna Road.

Most Native American tribes adopted young captives to replace individuals they had lost to illness or warfare.

Some of the first European-American families here were those headed by James Sneed, Robert Irvin Moore, Thomas Hardeman, Gersham Hunt, Samuel and Andrew Crockett, and John Edmondson, who arrived well before 1800.

Many of these families had received land grants in this area because of the men's service in the Virginia or North Carolina militia during the Revolutionary War.

[8] The Frost place on Old Smyrna Road was a center of frontier businesses, with a general store, grist mill, and post office soon developed located there.

Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest led a column of men into Union-controlled Brentwood, intent on recapturing this section of the Nashville & Decatur Railroad.

Forrest had cut the telegraph wires, isolating Bloodgood as he brought in heavy artillery.

After the Civil War, many of the large plantations were sold or had plots leased to freedmen sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

It made commuting easier for people who worked in Nashville and wanted to live in newer housing.

Brentwood can experience severe weather year-round, and tornadoes are an enhanced risk from November through May.

Three tornadoes that hit Brentwood in recent history occurred on December 24, 1988,[13] January 30, 2013,[14] and March 1, 2017.

[15] A little known fact is that Brentwood (as well as the western two-thirds of Tennessee) is within Dixie Alley, a region in the Southern United States that is at high risk from destructive tornadoes.

[23] Real-estate firm Movoto ranked Brentwood as the seventh-wealthiest small town in the United States in 2014.

A trailhead for a portion of the Concord Park walking trail is located adjacent to the Brentwood Family YMCA.

It features seven lit tennis courts, restroom/concessions buildings, eight lit ball fields, 11 multi-purpose fields, bikeway/jogging trails, a disc golf course, two historic homes, a community playground, picnic shelters, and the Eddy Arnold amphitheater.

The City of Brentwood sponsors an annual summer concert series at the Eddy Arnold Amphitheater in Crockett Park, with free admission to the public.

[citation needed] The Deerwood Arboretum and Nature Area is 27 acres (110,000 m2) and has an observation deck, covered outdoor classrooms, and an amphitheater.

The Arboretum contains man-made lakes, nature trails, and indigenous wildlife, and the Little Harpeth River flows through it.

Granny White Park is a 32-acre (130,000 m2) park with several sporting facilities including four lighted tennis courts, softball/baseball fields, jogging/biking trails, a multi-purpose field (soccer and lacrosse goals provided), sand volleyball court, playground, and picnic pavilion and is located near Brentwood Middle School.

The 1825 Ravenswood (Brentwood, Tennessee) mansion is a center piece to be used as a meeting place for the public.

It features a restroom facility, playground, outdoor basketball court, and borders the YMCA soccer fields.