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Montpier

Montpier is a Tennessee historical marker in Williamson County.

Williamson Co, TN 106 (US 431), 3 miles south of co. line

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Nicholas Perkins (1779 - 1848) established this 12000-acre estate about 3 miles S.W. in 1810. In 1807, an official Mississippi Territory, he had arrested former vice president Aaron Burr and taken him from Ft. Stoddert, Mss., to Richmond, Va., for trial on charges of treason. He was later territorial attorney general in Mississippi. His house is about 1 mile west of this road: he is buried near the junction of two rivers 0.3 miles east.

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