Tucker House: 112 Oak, St., Smyrna

This house (c. 1860) became the property of Tucker descendent Frances Neel Cheney and her husband, Brainerd Cheney, in 1939. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, the George Peabody College for Teachers, and Columbia University, Frances Cheney had an influential career as a librarian and professor of library science. She worked at Vanderbilt, the Library of Congress, and the Peabody School of Library Science. She remains renowned for her reviews of reference books and essays. The Tennessee Library Association’s librarianship award is named after her.