Historical Marker
Bending Chestnut
Historical marker location:
5750 Bending Chestnut Road, Franklin, Tennessee
( Marker is at the intersection of Bending Chestnut Road and Greenbriar Road, on the right when traveling north on Bending Chestnut Road.)
Marker installed: 2001
The Great Train Robbery of 1866, one of the most famous train robberies in American history, took place in Tennessee. A group of Confederate veterans stole $90,000 from a train traveling from Nashville to Chattanooga.