7353 Horn Tavern Rd, Fairview TN In May 1889, Franklin lawyer. P.E. Cox and N.E. Morris began developing their ideas for one of Middle Tennessee's first planned communities, the town of Pasadena. It was situated on part of Major Isaac Ivy's 4,000-acre land grant. The town originally consisted of 1,391 acres. The community was divided into square blocks and included avenues. parks, and a town square. A hotel, post office, school, blacksmith shop, doctor's office, and tobacco warehouse were the first signs of growth; but the project soon ended in failure. In 1915, Cox and Ed Pierson redrew the community into 37 lots of no less than 40 acres each. priced at $200. They found eager buyers in Chicago's new Russian-Jewish immigrant community, but Pasadena's 13 Jewish families abandoned the area by the mid-1920s.