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Greenbrier is a city in Robertson County, Tennessee, concentrated along U.S. Route 41 about 23 miles north of Nashville, between Springfield, the county seat, and Goodlettsville.

The community began with Edward Saunders Cheatham, who purchased some 3,150 acres in the area in 1860 and established a sawmill and related businesses; the settlement was first known as Cheatham's Station.

When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was completed through the settlement, it was renamed Greenbrier, a name linked to the greenbrier vines found in the area.

In 1870 Charles Nelson opened his Green Brier Distillery in Greenbrier; it grew into the largest producer of sour-mash whiskey in Robertson County, sold its whiskey internationally, and operated until Tennessee's statewide prohibition shut it down in 1909.

The original Nelson distillery site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and its barrel house and grain house still stand.

Greenbrier was incorporated in 1903, with Charlie Webster as its first mayor, and the General Assembly reincorporated it under a new charter in 1937.

The 2020 census counted 6,898 residents and 2,393 households in Greenbrier, up from 6,433 residents in 2010 and just 522 in 1910.

The city covers about 7.3 square miles in southern Robertson County and is governed under a mayor-council system.

Greenbrier is known for the Turning of the Pig, an annual July 3 barbecue festival benefiting the Greenbrier High School band program, in which hundreds of pounds of pork are cooked on open pits and the pulled pork goes on sale the morning of July 4.

Louise Martin Memorial Park in Greenbrier offers a paved walking and running loop, additional trails, three baseball fields, a playground, and picnic areas.