Collier Lane Crichlow Wagnon House: 500 N. Spring St.

Built in about 1850, this National Register-listed house was purchased in 1858 by Jesse and Newton Collier for their widowed mother, Martha Covington Collier. Ten years later, a nephew of the Collier brothers, Ingram Collier, Jr., bought the house for his sister Martha Collier Lane and her husband, James Lane. Their daughter Emily “Emma” Lane kept a diary for the years 1864-1866 (now at MTSU’s Albert Gore Research Center). Extraordinary for her insights into the war’s end and its aftermath, Lane lamented that the war had brought “trouble sorrow & desolation to the hearthstones of so many.” She and husband James Crichlow raised their family here.