Free Hill is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee, United States. It is an African American community established in 1816, before the Civil War. The original inhabitants were the freed slaves of Virginia Hill, the daughter of a wealthy North Carolina planter. After purchasing 2,000 acres of isolated hilly land, Hill freed her slaves an…Free Hill is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Tennessee, United States. It is an African American community established in 1816, before the Civil War. The original inhabitants were the freed slaves of Virginia Hill, the daughter of a wealthy North Carolina planter. After purchasing 2,000 acres of isolated hilly land, Hill freed her slaves and turned the property over to them. Folklore suggests that the original residents included Virginia Hill's own mulatto children.
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