Historic Haunts of Sumner County, Tennessee

From the homes of the first settlers in Middle Tennessee to Gallatin's public square and everywhere in between, there is not a more haunted county in America. The Winchesters' unique and architecturally impressive Cragfont had mysterious occurrences from its very beginnings in the late 1700s. Gallatin's public square, its courthouse, loft apartments and places of business have hauntings that seem to specifically point to restless spirits still unsettled from the oppressive days of Civil War occupation by a brutal commanding officer of the Union army. Even the modern subdivisions are not immune to the supernatural, hosting everything from flying cryptids to tormented spirit-remnants of the bloody conflict between settlers and Native Americans. Author Donna Lyn Hartley details the spooky side of Sumner County.

Donna Lyn Hartley is a fifth-generation Texan transplanted to Tennessee in the early 1990s. Donna spent ten years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Texas, as well as working as a press aide to a Texas state representative and holding media-related jobs in public service and nonprofit organizations. A lover of all things history, she has appeared in cemetery tours in Nashville and Gallatin and is the creator/presenter of the Gallatin Ghost Walk history and mystery tour. Donna is a fourth-generation member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter, in Austin, Texas.