Little Lot proper has seen better days as the general store was demolished a long time ago. The reason for the name is quite simple - Little Lot was named for its diminutive size when a founder declared -

"It is such a little lot, we can't give it a big name".

The story of Pinewood where this road leads is both amazing and sad -

Down the road a piece in the north central part of Hickman County is the community of Pinewood. Mrs. Samuel (Frances) Graham named the community from the fact that the original buildings were all constructed of pine.
Settled in 1806 by James Davis, by 1820 there was a grist mill and cotton gin. It was in 1848 that Samuel L. Graham, with his brother Richard Graham and brother-in-law, William Lytle purchased the Davis farm and sixty five acres of land on Piney River. Samuel L. Graham and his son, John, came to solely own the land and kept buying until they owned sixty five hundred acres of rich farm land.
It was under Graham’s foresight and determination that Pinewood came into its own as a self-sustained village with rows of houses, a brick factory, a textile mill, saw mill, blacksmith shop, a canning factory, along with a grist mill that ground flour and meal. Included in this progressive community of more than four hundred was a hotel, general store, post office, a church, a school, and the Grahams’ Pinewood Mansion.
Completed in 1868 the Pinewood Mansion cost an exorbitant $32,000 to construct. Unlike anything ever seen in Hickman County, the home boasted elaborate Italian plaster work and solar heated water. The bathtub was copper, the basin was marble, and the faucets were silver. But the feature most remembered by all who entered was the grand winding stairway, hand carved of Cuban mahogany.

Son, John Graham suffered financial crisis in the early 1900s and sold much of the land. The land fell to different ownership through the years with Mack Craig purchasing the mansion and surrounding forty acres in 1967. Mr. Craig restored the house and filled it with antiques. In 1971 the Pinewood Mansion was added to the roster of the National Registry of Historic Places. In March of 1975 a fire started in the kitchen, burning the mansion to the ground.

At the time of his death, Mr. Graham owned over 6,000 acres, oversaw a self-sufficient community with its own currency and was the wealthiest man for many miles in any direction. Now all that is left of his 'empire' is a lonely grave marker that sets out in the middle of a field that can hardly be seen from Highway 48.

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