COMER HOUSE
Historic House — Sumner County County, Tennessee
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/comer-house-tennessee/

Historic house in Tennessee; research record.

A historic house in Sumner County, Tennessee, Comer House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic house in Tennessee; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

The Comer House on Nashville Pike in Gallatin has had three owners' names and two buildings, and the land remembers all of it. John Franklin settled the property in 1807 as Woodlawn Plantation; it passed through Franklin heirs until 1867, when Thomas Black Wilson and Lucy Cragwell bought it. Their son Thomas Jr. farmed it into the mid-1930s, then sold to Guy Comer — a Nashville businessman and founder of Washington Manufacturing Company in Madison — who built the Comer Barn and, in the 1950s, demolished the original house and raised the present one on its foundation.
The house now serves as Sumner County Tourism's headquarters, which is how it came by its dossier: Tennessee's official tourism channels record employee reports of voices and moving furniture in the building, and the county's Spirits of Sumner haunted-history bus tour departs from its address.

FILED AS REPORTED
The file keeps those claims in their proper tense — staff experiences reported through tourism coverage, not investigated findings — and the research notes ask that confidence figures be read as provenance rather than endorsement.
What anchors the entry is the house's documented layering: an 1807 settlement, a nineteenth-century farm, a mid-century rebuild on the old foundation, and a modern civic use that put its staff's accounts into the public record.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] haunting: Tennessee Tourism records employee reports of voices and moving furniture. Comer House in the area, Tennessee is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. 'Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.
  source: Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026 (https://www.tn.gov/tourism/news/2026/9/4/unique--immersive-experiences-at-these-haunted-destinations-in-tennessee-create-the-ultimate-spooky-season-road-trip.html)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Haunted Destinations in Tennessee: September 2026 — Tennessee Department of Tourist Development
  https://www.tn.gov/tourism/news/2026/9/4/unique--immersive-experiences-at-these-haunted-destinations-in-tennessee-create-the-ultimate-spooky-season-road-trip.html

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