Sam Davis Home and Museum: 1399 Sam Davis Road, Smyrna

Captured by Union forces along with his enslaved servant during the Civil War, 21-year-old Sam Davis, a Confederate scout, refused to reveal his source and was hanged in Pulaski in November 1863. In his final letter to his parents, Sam wrote, “Mother, I do not fear to die.” Women later helped immortalize Davis as the “Boy Hero of the Confederacy,” which became a prominent feature of “Lost Cause” mythology. Women also preserved the house (1850) after the state bought it in 1927 and ran the Sam Davis Memorial Home Association. The National Register-listed property includes a family cemetery, as well as slave cabins moved to the site in the twentieth century.