The land on which Overton Hall stands was granted by the United States government to Jesse Maxwell, for services in the Revolutionary War. Jesse Maxwell Overton was a businessman and stockbreeder, and he built the home for his wife Saidee Williams, daughter of banker John P. Williams. Overton Hall was built on the original Travellers’ Rest south of Nashville, and he ran a farm, famous for the breeding of Berkshire hogs and Jersey cattle. This manor house was located in a beautiful wooded area in the present-day Crieve Hall subdivision about nine miles south of downtown Nashville, two miles north of Brentwood and east of Franklin Pike. The second owners Herbert and Ritchey Farrell renamed it Crieve Hall, after a family ancestral home in Northern Ireland. It stood until the early 1950s when it was razed for a housing development.
