Places · Landmark
Leiper's Fork Historic District
The village on the National Register: three blocks of houses, churches and stores from about 1830 to 1935 north of Old Hillsboro Road, listed in 1998, and the 4000 block of the road itself, added in 2012 with the grocery that is now Fox & Locke, the Country Boy and the gas station that became Leiper's Creek Gallery. About 40 acres, free to walk.
The facts
Where and what.
- What it is
- Landmark, historic district
- Town
- Leiper's Fork, Williamson County
- Website
- npgallery.nps.gov
- What it costs
- Free.
- Parking
- No public lot. Each shop has a few spaces, Fox & Locke asks that its lot be left to its customers, and on weekends the road fills; the county's 2011 plan for the village called for public and shared parking.
- What is there
- Bungalows, Queen Anne and Georgian Revival houses, I-houses and gable-front stores: 54 contributing buildings in the 1998 listing, and 15 more buildings and structures in 2012.
- The 2012 additions include the Fly-Hunt House of 1902 at 4107, three houses of about 1910 at 4115 to 4121, the 1889 Hulme-Allen-Locke-McCandless House at 4136 (the Copper Fox Gallery) and the 1956 grocery at 4142.
- The sites of the 1873 Hillsboro School at 4133, and of the tollhouse on the Hillsboro and Franklin turnpike at Floyd Road, torn down in 1974.
- J. L. Sweeney's farm was cut into Elm, Sycamore and Joseph Streets in 1911, the year after the Middle Tennessee Railroad arrived.
- Travelers on the Natchez Trace called the place Bentontown, and it was Hillsboro until 1818, when the post office took the creek's name because Tennessee already had a Hillsboro.
- Neighborhood guide
- Leiper's Fork: where to live, what it costs, the trade-offs
- Sources
- National Register: Leipers Fork Historic District (1998)
- National Register nomination: Leipers Fork Historic District (1998)
- National Register: Leipers Fork Historic District boundary increase (2012)
- National Register nomination: the 2012 boundary increase
- Williamson County: Leiper's Fork Village Special Area Plan (2011)
- Williamson Scene: A Leiper's Fork staycation (Aug. 7, 2025)
- Fox & Locke: contact, hours and parking
- State of Tennessee address locator: Old Hillsboro Rd & Old Hwy 96
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Also in Leiper's Fork.
Crown Winery Leiper's Fork.
The Humboldt winery's tasting room on Leiper's Creek, which opened in May 2021 as Wines in the Fork in a former music-memorabilia shop. Wine by the flight, glass or bottle, slushies and cider, and seats in the creek itself.
Bubble Joy.
Kettle fudge, candy by the quarter pound and a bar of craft sodas with popping boba, plus mocktails and a taffy bar, at the Shops at Leiper's Corner. The owners, Jason and deMarco, doubled the shop in 2026.
Moo Country.
Western clothing, boots, hats, jewelry and home goods from Dawn Ann Ritter, who opened here in 2018 and has a second store in Bozeman, Montana.
PROPS Leiper's Fork.
Antiques, vintage clothing, neon signs and collectibles, with candy and local goods, at the Shops at Leiper's Corner. It also keeps a showroom at the Round Top antiques show in Texas, and holds Pickin' Leiper's Fork, a three-day antiques show, each November.
David Arms Gallery.
The painter David Arms's own gallery, which he calls the Studio in Leiper's Fork: his originals, and notecards, glassware and books made from his work. In 2024 he moved here from the barn a few doors away where he had opened in 2011, into a building he designed, with back windows over Leiper's Creek.
Tennessee Turquoise Company.
Vintage silver and turquoise jewelry, most of it made by Native American artists and bought from dealers in the West, sold from a cabin that holds four customers at a time. Morgane Stapleton opened it in July 2019, and every sale supports the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.
Patina Home & Garden.
Antiques, linens, home goods and garden things from the designer Brooke Giannetti and the architect Steve Giannetti, in the village's 1914 general store since October 2022. Fox and Locke opened their first store in this building in 1947.
Erica Birch Home.
Art, fabric by the yard, furniture, lamps, antiques and gifts, from a design shop a wife and husband run, with Gilyn McKelligon leading the design. It seems to have opened late in 2025; no opening was announced.