Thompson's Station park wins preservation award

The town of Thompson’s Station was presented with an award for historic preservation by the Heritage Foundation of Williamson County at the fifth annual Preservation Symposium. The town was recognized for the 207-acre Preservation Park, which was purchased by the town in 2013 using a conservation easement with the Land Trust for Tennessee and the Civil War Trust. This park buffers development from the south and north while linking a regional trail and greenway system in the town. The park also preserves a portion of the battlefield for the March 5, 1863, engagement at Thompson’s Station during the Civil War. To tell that story as well as a broader story of the town — the people, places, events and cultural history — Thompson’s Station’s Parks and Recreation board partnered with the Civil War Trails, MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, and the Heritage Foundation to place a series of historic markers along the trail system in Preservation Park. The seven panels provide park patrons of with an in-depth and grounded history of the surrounding landscape, people and culture.