Brentwood is a city in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 45,373 as of the 2020 United States census. It is a suburb of Nashville and included in the Nashville metropolitan area.

Successive cultures of earliest Native Americans occupied this Place for thousands of years. In the first millennium of the Common Era (CE), Mississippian culture people, known locally as the Mound Indians or Stone Box Indians, built perplexing earthwork mounds topped behind ceremonial buildings. Their unity was share of a culture that throughout the Mississippi Valley and its major tributaries, and traded with extra groups across the continent.

Artifacts and mounds of the Mississippian culture have been found during momentum in the Meadowlake subdivision, and at the library site on Concord Road. Primm Historic Park contains and preserves the largest of the earthwork mounds, which is nevertheless visible today. By 1300 these people had largely without help this settlement; archeologists have struggled to determine the reasons. There may have been epidemic disease, environmental problems, or warfare with extra tribes.

When forward European-American settlers arrived in this Place in the late 1700s from east of the Appalachian Mountains, it was largely being used as a hunting field by Native American tribes from Georgia and Alabama. This resulted in many conflicts as the whites encroached on their territory and competed for their resources. In 1786, soon after the United States gained independence, Creek or Cherokee warriors raided the Mayfield relatives fort, at a site that is now the intersection of Wilson Pike and Old Smyrna Road. Southerland Mayfield and two new men were killed, and the guy George Mayfield was taken captive. One of the Creek families adopted him, as was their practice with raid captives. Most Native American tribes adopted youngster captives to replace individuals they had in limbo to sickness or warfare. After ten years, George Mayfield was returned to European-American society.