White House, Tennessee · Since the late 1940s

The American LegionPost 206

A post of veterans serving Middle Tennessee veterans — benefits help from our own service officer, funeral honors for those we lose, colors at the ceremonies that matter, and food on the shelf for a family having a hard month.

Call (615) 362-3462 Rent the Hall

The Post Home 3321 Hwy 31W, White House, TN 37188

Post Meeting 7:00 PM · 1st Thursday, monthly

Telephone (615) 362-3462

Day to Day Facebook — @Post206TN →

The Post

Eighty years of the same job, done by different generations

Originally recognized in the late 1940s under a different post number, Post 206 has served Middle Tennessee veterans and their families for generations — military and civic parades, food distribution, veteran funeral services, and support for people in a hard stretch, in wartime and in peace.

The Post maintains an area service officer: a person whose job is to sit down with a veteran, work through a VA benefits analysis, and help them navigate VA medical groups and national associations. That is the part most people do not know a Legion post does, and it is the part that changes the most lives.

Post 206 shares its building with American Legion Auxiliary Unit 206. The doors say both.

80 years of the Post serving Middle Tennessee veterans and their families

Navy SEAL monument on the grounds
Interior renovated with a Home Depot grant
Pavilion built in 2017
Hosted the 6th District Convention

Seven members of Post 206 in American Legion caps standing behind a table draped with a banner reading American Legion Post 206, White House, Tennessee, with a Marine Corps flag and United States flags behind them

Post 206, White House Members of the Post behind their own colors. Commander: Toni N. Cory, a former U.S. Air Force JAG officer and the first woman to command Post 206.

The Signature of Every Legion Post

The Preamble — ten purposes, in the order they were written

Every American Legion post in the world opens on the same words. Post 206 is the ten of them, at 3321 Hwy 31W.

I
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America;
II
To maintain law and order;
III
To foster and perpetuate a one hundred percent Americanism;
IV
To preserve the memories and incidents of our associations in all wars;
V
To inculcate a sense of individual obligation to the community, state and nation;
VI
To combat the autocracy of both the classes and the masses;
VII
To make right the master of might;
VIII
To promote peace and goodwill on earth;
IX
To safeguard and transmit to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy;
X
To consecrate and sanctify our comradeship by our devotion to mutual helpfulness.

“Veterans Strengthening America” Preamble to the Constitution of The American Legion, chartered by Congress in 1919.

What the Post Actually Does

Not a clubhouse. A working post.

These are the things Post 206 has published about its own work — not a list of what a veterans organization is generally supposed to do.

Area Service Officer

One-on-one VA benefits analysis, and help navigating VA medical groups and national associations. Start by calling the Post.

Funeral Honors

Veteran funeral services for the families of those we lose. When a member passes, the Post enters their name on the roll of Post Everlasting.

Colors & Ceremonies

The Post presents the colors and stands honors at community ceremonies, memorials and school events across the area.

Food Distribution

Shelves stocked at the Post and handed out to veterans and families having a hard month. Quiet, local, and constant.

Flag Retirement

Each June 14th the Post conducts a disposal ceremony for worn flags — retired with honor, as the Flag Code directs, by burning.

Parades & Civic Duty

Celebratory military and civic parades, and a standing presence at the moments a town marks together.

A Post 206 color guard carrying the United States flag and a service flag across a school gymnasium floor in front of a yellow cinder-block wall — The Post color guard posting the colors at a school ceremony.

A memorial wreath on a stand beside a bugler playing at a ceremony in a school gymnasium — A wreath and a bugler — honors rendered.

The United States flag flying above the black POW slash MIA flag on one pole, with a white United States Army flag on a second pole, against a blue sky with cumulus clouds — The colors, the POW/MIA flag and the Army flag over Highway 31W.

Legion Programs

What membership plugs a family into

These are the national American Legion programs Post 206 puts its name behind. Ask at the Post about taking part locally.

American Legion Baseball

A legendary national league for high-school youths that has produced thousands of collegiate baseball scholarships — and some professional careers.

Boys & Girls State / Nation

A nationally ranked summer program where high-school students run real local, county and state government scenarios. Exceptional on a college application.

American Legion Riders

Got a motorcycle? Legacy Runs happen all spring, summer and fall — riding for Legion members and veterans across the nation.

Operation Comfort Warriors

Donations that put comfort items and direct assistance into the hands of wounded warriors.

Oratorical Contest

Since 1938, a regional and national contest building knowledge of the U.S. Constitution among high-school students — with real scholarships for the top candidates.

Legacy Scholarships

Scholarships for the children of post-9/11 veterans, plus Samsung scholarships open to students of Legion members.

Rent the Hall

The room that pays for all of the above

Post 206 has a large event room available to the public — birthdays, showers, reunions, board meetings, family meals, holiday parties. Every hour rented funds assistance for local veterans and programs for area youth.

Large open event room
Full kitchen
Restrooms on site
Wall-mounted TV
Kitchen pass-through
On-site parking

The Post 206 event room, painted cinder-block walls and wood-look flooring, with a United States flag on a floor stand and notice boards on the wall — The event room

The Post 206 full kitchen with wood cabinets, a stainless steel range and a stainless steel refrigerator — Full kitchen

A serving pass-through window between the Post 206 event room and its kitchen, with a dark countertop ledge — Pass-through

An interior corridor at Post 206 with two restroom doors and a wall thermostat — Restrooms

A large flat-screen television mounted on the painted cinder-block wall of the Post 206 event room — Mounted TV

Shelving units and boxes at Post 206 stocked with canned goods and household supplies for the Post's food distribution — Food distribution

Hall Rate

$40 / hour

Two-hour minimum. Over five hours, a maximum of $240 per day.

Large open event room
Full kitchen included
Restrooms on site
Proceeds fund veteran assistance and area youth programs

Alcohol is not permitted on the premises. Rates and availability change — please call the Post to confirm current pricing and book a date.

Call to Check a Date

The Rhythm of the Post

What comes around, and when

The Post's own recurring calendar. Dates other than the monthly meeting move — check the Post's Facebook page for the current schedule.

1st ThuMonthly

Post Meeting

7:00 PM at the Post home on Highway 31W. Members and prospective members welcome — call ahead before you come out.

WeeklyDrawing

Queen of Hearts Drawing

The Post's weekly gathering and drawing — a fun, sociable night and one of the ways the Post raises what it gives away.

Jun 14Annually

Flag Day Ceremony

7:00 PM. The Post conducts a disposal ceremony for worn flags — retired by burning, as the Flag Code directs. Bring a flag that has served its purpose.

EveningsAt the Post

Bert's Open Mic Night

7:30 PM. An open mic night in the hall — the informal side of a post that is otherwise all business.

Membership

Two ways into Post 206

The Post

American Legion membership is open to those who have served honorably during an eligible period of U.S. military service. A veteran is a veteran — the Legion welcomes all current and former military members.

Joining puts you alongside people who have been through it, and gives the Post a stronger voice for veterans locally.

Call About Joining

Auxiliary Unit 206

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 206 shares the Post home. Membership is open to female relatives of a military veteran — wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, granddaughter or descendant — who served in times of war or conflict.

The Auxiliary sends care packages to active troops, volunteers at VA medical centers, and runs flag education in the community. Its motto is “Service not Self.”

Ask About the Auxiliary

Contact

Reach the Post

The most reliable way to reach Post 206 is the telephone, and the fastest way to see what is happening this week is Facebook.

Post Home 3321 Hwy 31W, White House, TN 37188

Telephone (615) 362-3462 The White House Area Chamber of Commerce also lists (615) 390-5816 for the Post.

Online facebook.com/Post206TN Current events, notices and photos are posted here.

Post Meeting 7:00 PM · 1st Thursday of each month Call ahead to confirm before you drive out.

The entrance to the Post 206 building: a white door with a sign reading American Legion, Post 206 and Unit 206, flanked by an American Legion emblem plaque and an American Legion Auxiliary emblem plaque on a cream cinder-block wall

The Post home on Highway 31W. The door carries both plaques — Post 206 and Auxiliary Unit 206.

Call Post 206 — (615) 362-3462