Triune is an unincorporated community in eastern Williamson County, Tennessee, approximately halfway between Franklin and Murfreesboro.
The earliest recorded non-Native American settlement in the Triune area was by William Jordan, a Virginian who built a log cabin there in 1796.
By the 1820s the community consisted of a number of substantial buildings, including a general store, saloons, and a leather shop.
A number of Confederate brigades under General Braxton Bragg defended Middle Tennessee, and in December 1862 the area saw military activity related to the Battle of Stones River at Murfreesboro.
Essentially a drawn battle, the Confederates nevertheless retreated and the Union Army occupied Triune, erecting fortifications to control the crossroads.
[1] On May 2, 1892, African Americans in the area reportedly killed at least three white residents in retaliation for the lynching of Ephraim Grizzard in Nashville.
[8] Modern Triune is the site of a manufacturing facility that produces equipment for harvesting tobacco, still a commodity crop in Middle Tennessee.