The William Boyd House, also known as All Bright Hill, is a double-pen house in Franklin, Tennessee, United States. The W.A. Boyd farm was one of the largest farms or plantations in Williamson County both before and after the

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. After the war, many of these were reduced in size, but the Boyd farm, which included the Boyd Mill and the William Boyd House had . The house was of log cabin type but was expanded with a two-story

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. The house was listed on the

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in 1988. When listed the property included one contributing building and one non-contributing structure on . This house is one of five log buildings built during 1798 to 1800, during the earliest settling of the area, which survive to today. Others, also NRHP-listed, are: the William Ogilvie House, the David McEwen House, the Daniel McMahan House, and the Andrew Crockett House.

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Double pen architecture Houses completed in 1800 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Houses in Franklin, Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Williamson County, Tennessee {{WilliamsonCountyTN-NRHP-stub

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