Thomas Kilgore
Thomas Kilgore was the founder of Cross Plains, Tennessee.
Thomas Kilgore was born in 1715 in present-day Virginia. In early 1779, Kilgore brought friends and family to an area by the Red River and made a small town called Kilgore Station. Thomas Kilgore died at 108 in 1823 during a trip to Gallatin, Tennessee. In 2007, The new park in Cross Plains was named after him.
