Three miles N.E. Neill S. Brown was born April 18, 1810. Veteran of Seminole War, in 1837 became member of State Legislature; in 1847, Governor of Tennessee. In 1850 he was U.S. Minister to Russia and 1870 member of the State Constitutional Convention. He died in 1886.

Marker is on Elkton Pike (U.S. 31) north of Newman Road, on the left when traveling north.

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