Places · Restaurant
Black Dog Pub & Music Lounge
A pub with food and a songwriters' listening room in a converted house on West Main Street, built out over two years by Peggy and Marc Driskill.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Restaurant, pub with a listening room
- Town
- Franklin, Williamson County
- Website
- theblackdogpub.com
- Phone
- 629-654-0419
- Opened
- March 2026
- Neighborhood guide
- Franklin: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
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Carter House.
The Carter family's brick farmhouse of about 1830 on Columbia Avenue, the Union command post at the center of the Battle of Franklin. The farm office and smokehouse still carry more than a thousand bullet and shrapnel holes. The state owns it, and the Battle of Franklin Trust gives the tours.
Lotz House.
The house Johann Albert Lotz, a German-born carpenter and piano maker, finished in 1858 across Columbia Avenue from the Carter House. It took cannon fire in the battle and then served as a hospital for both armies. The Lotz House Foundation runs it as a museum, and the woodwork is the reason to go.
Franklin Road Apparel Company.
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Palmer Kennedy.
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Tweeds.
A custom clothier that measures customers for suits, tuxedos, sport coats, dress shirts and overcoats. Donald Carlson founded the company in Florida in 2019.
Finnleys.
A women's clothing and jewelry boutique. Its site calls the Main Street store the one where the business started; it also has a store on 12th Avenue South in Nashville.
Awaken TN.
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