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Williamson County, Tennessee is located south of Nashville and was established on October 26, 1799 and named for Dr. Hugh Williamson, surgeon general of the North Carolina militia, member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Constitution. The county prospered until the Civil War came. The Battle of Franklin was one of the most decisive of the Civil War leaving over 8,000 dead or wounded in five hours of fierce fighting and turning every home and building in town into a hospital. Williamson County settled down to an agricultural based economy after the war. Tobacco became the main cash crop. It took nearly 120 years for the county's economy to reach pre-war levels. The 1960's began a period of rapid growth, largely in part to the interstate system. Today's population stands at an estimated 161,000.

There are many 'firsts' in Williamson County such as The Masonic Hall, the first Masonic Lodge and first three-story building in Tennessee; St. Paul's Church, the first Protestant Episcopal Church in Tennessee; and the Liberty Methodist Church, the scene of the first Methodist Conference west of the Alleghenies.