Forest Hills is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee. The population was 5,038 at the 2010 census and 4,866 in a 2018 estimate.

Nashville was arranged by Anglo-Europeans in 1780, and beyond the next two decades settlers staked claims on what was originally land cultivated and hunted by Native Americans. Several estate grants were awarded to Revolutionary War veterans. The recipients of these grants seldom fixed the home themselves, but either sold them to individuals or passed them along to their kids or supplementary relatives. In the Forest Hills area, William Nash established a 640-acre (2.6 km) grant along what is now Granny White Pike south of Tyne Boulevard. Nash opted to sell off parcels of his land, including a 160-acre (0.65 km²) tract to Henry Compton in the forward 19th century. Much of the house west of Hillsboro Road was ration of a attain awarded to James Robertson.

A Revolutionary War veteran named McCrory chose to find the maintenance for his land grant to his son Thomas, who came to the Place in 1790. The younger McCrory went on to Get some 3,700 acres (15 km) in Davidson and Williamson counties, including home along what is now Old Hickory Boulevard. McCrory built a two-story log dwelling on this property in 1798. The property was purchased by William B. Carpenter in 1837, and his daughter and son-in-law Mary E. and George Mayfield familial the home in 1869. It remained in the Mayfield family until 1939. This is the oldest building long-lasting in Forest Hills, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. As Nashville assumed prominence upon the western frontier, a road known as the Natchez Trace was created to come up with the grant for an overland route for settlers returning from New Orleans. Many settlers in the Ohio and Cumberland River valleys floated upon rafts beside the Mississippi River to New Orleans to sell their goods. Prior to the invention of the steamboat, western settlers had no different but to walk house through the wilderness to achieve home. In order to give an greater than before road, the Natchez Trace was constructed from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi.

Construction of the Natchez Trace began in 1802, and play a part continued on improving the road until it was officially declared fixed in 1809. From the prematurely 19th century to the 1820s, the Natchez Trace was the primary north/south route through central Tennessee. With the advent of steamboat travel, the use of the Natchez Trace declined significantly, and the antiquated roadbed was used as local farm roads by the mid-19th century. Various surveys and home records of the 19th century concentrate on to the “Natchez Trace” or “Natchez Road” located on at least three substitute routes in Davidson County, two of which ran through Forest Hills. As National Park Service historian Dawson Phelps wrote in the 1940s, “All this has been unquestionably confusing to many Nashvillians who dabble in local history. Each has a unqualified idea that one or the new of the roads mentioned above is the Old Trace and is eager, at the Fall of a hat, to defend his aim obstinately, profanely, and at great length.” However, a recent assay of the Natchez Trace identified one of the main routes extending through what is now Forest Hills along either side of present-day Hillsboro Pike.