Haysborough, Tennessee

Haysborough, Tennessee, originally Fort Union, also spelled Haysboro, is an extinct settlement of the United States that was founded around 1780 and was abandoned within 100 years.

A two-story frame building called the Haysborough tavern, a blacksmith shop, a grocery and some cabins made the town.

[1] The Tennessee state legislature passed "An Act to establish a town by the name of Haysborough, on a north bluff of the Cumberland river in Davidson county" in 1799.

According to an 1884 history, "[Andrew] Jackson received his mail from here, and in some of his letters he speaks of meeting friends on the streets of Haysborough.

"[1] But when the Nashville and Gallatin Turnpike opened in 1839 and a "cut-off was made between the Williams farm section and the present Amqui...Haysboro [became] a stranger to succeeding generations.