Deberry Log House/Wisener-Church House Site

Derryberry Log House - The Derryberry Log House originally stood on the waters of Derryberry Branch near the Duck River in eastern Maury County. Built of hand-hewn native hardwood logs in the dogtrot style with an open central passage typical of the early nineteenth century, it was the home of David L. & Melinda Hardison Derryberry. T.V.A. obtained the house in the process of acquiring prosperities for the Columbia Reservoir Project and transferred it to Maury County Parks and Recreation. It was moved to this site in 1991 and restored. SIDE 2 - Wisener-Church House Site - Here stood the 19th century home of Samuel O. and Mary Angeline Brooks Wisener. Samuel died in 1891, and his heirs sold their 172-acre farm to his niece, Mary Albertine Roberst Church, tow-years later. She and John William Clayton Church made their home here. A member of the Maury County Court, he served as a state senator from Lewis, Maury, and Perry Counties from 1913 to 1917. An advocate of public education, woman suffrage, and prohibition, John William Clayton Church, a conservative economist, was known as the "Watchdog of the Treasury."