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Harpeth True Value
A hardware store and lumber yard on Downs Boulevard for more than 50 years. It closed at the end of March 2026.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Shop, hardware and lumber
- Town
- Franklin, Williamson County
- Closed
- March 31, 2026
- Neighborhood guide
- Franklin: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
- Sources
- Williamson Herald: Harpeth True Value to close after more than 50 years in Franklin (March 5, 2026)
- Williamson Scene: Williamson Weekly: Hardware Store to Close After 50 Years (March 11, 2026)
- Williamson Herald: Local business to fill Harpeth True Value space (June 15, 2026)
- City of Franklin address locator: 203 Downs Blvd
On the Frontline
Where we have written about it.
Nearby
Also in Franklin.
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.
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.
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.
Carnton.
The McGavock family's 1826 house on Lewisburg Pike, which became the area's largest field hospital after the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864, with the McGavock Confederate Cemetery beside it. The Battle of Franklin Trust gives tours of the house, the grounds and the Eastern Flank battlefield.
Franklin Road Apparel Company.
A men's and women's clothing store that carries denim from labels such as Naked & Famous and Red Wing boots. Ken Thwaits founded it in 2017.
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.
Palmer Kennedy.
A Christian boutique selling women's consignment clothing alongside new faith-themed apparel, jewelry, Bibles and gifts. It opened in Westhaven in March 2025 and moved to Main Street in early 2026.
heylee b.
A women's clothing boutique and beauty bar next to Sweet Cece's, run by a makeup artist who has worked in the trade for more than 20 years.