“The narrows of the harpeth”
Harpeth River State Park is a linear park managing 40 miles of the Harpeth River that connects several natural, archeological and historic sites including nine access points. The Narrows of the Harpeth, a 100 yard tunnel, hand cut through solid rock in 1818, was one of the great engineering feats of the time and is today an industrial landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. Montgomery Bell, an early iron industrialist, was so proud of his steel mill that he lived within the sound of this waterfall and is buried across the river. The park also includes the Mound Bottom and Mace Bluff archaeological sites, the Newsom's Mill Historic Site, the Gossett Tract State Natural Area, and a section of land at Hidden Lakes. A half-mile trail along the backside of the limestone bluff leads to the site of Montgomery Bell’s Pattison Forge where a small waterfall is all that remains of the iron forge operation. Another trail offers a half-mile hike through the forest and along majestic bluffs to a small lake with a one mile spur trail ascending to the top of a ridge where the remains of an old marble dance floor are all that remain of a 1940’s resort.
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