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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Davidson County, Tennessee
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| On Harding Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In position from here northward along high ground, Ector's Brigade of French's Confederate Division commanded by Col. Daniel Coleman, outposted the left of Hood's line. Attacked by the Federal XVI Corps, supported by artillery and part of the . . . — — Map (db m52597) HM |
| On Franklin Pike (U.S. 31), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Here, Stephen D. Lee's Corps, Army of Tennessee, bestrode the highway and railroad. Cheatham's Corps held the right of the line, which ran northeast about 2 miles to Rain's Hill. After the Confederate left was broken in the afternoon's fighting, . . . — — Map (db m52849) HM |
| On Granny White Pike, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee, held this part of Hood's original line, extending east about 1500 yards, and west and south about 1 mile to Hillsboro Pike. After the turning of his left, about 4:00 P.M., Stewart established a new position . . . — — Map (db m53345) HM |
| On Granny White Pike, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The Federal XVI Corps attacked southward along this road. After violent artillery bombardment, McArthur's Division took the hill to the west about 4:00 p.m., precipitating the rout of Hood's Army. This hill is named for Col. W. M. Shy, 20th Tenn. . . . — — Map (db m53351) HM |
| On Granny White Pike at Sewanee Road, on the right when traveling north on Granny White Pike. |
| | Stewart's Corps, badly mauled during the first day, withdrew at night to a line extending eastward. Lee's Corps, forming the right wing, extended the line across Franklin Pike. Cheatham's Corps, on Stewart's left, extended the line westward, and . . . — — Map (db m53352) HM |
| On Hillsboro Pike (U.S. 431) at Burton Hills Boulevard, on the right when traveling south on Hillsboro Pike. |
| | Hood's Redoubt No. 5 was on this hill. Couch's Division of the XXIII Corps, sweeping to the south of the route of Smith's XVI, captured it and the hills to the east late in the afternoon. Wilson's cavalry, crossing the highway about 2 miles south, . . . — — Map (db m53357) HM |
| On Hillsboro Pike (U.S. 431), on the right when traveling north. |
| | 100 yards west was Redoubt No. 3 in the Confederate system of detached works beyond the main line. It was overrun by the enveloping attack of Wood's IV Corps from the northwest. — — Map (db m53360) HM |
| On Benton Smith Road, on the right when traveling south. |
| | On this hill was fought the decisive encounter of the Battle of Nashville December 16, 1864. At 4:15 P.M. a Federal assault at the angle on top of the hill broke the Confederate line. Col. W. M. Shy 20th Tenn. Inf. was killed and Gen. T. B. Smith . . . — — Map (db m53393) HM |
| On Tyne Boulevard, on the right when traveling east. |
| | After the withdrawal from the main Confederate line at Peach Orchard Hill, Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee formed a battle line across Franklin Pike 400 yards east of here with 200 men from the remnants of Brig. Gen. Henry Clayton's division and two cannons . . . — — Map (db m53394) HM |
| On Granny White Pike at Richland Woods Lane/Club Drive, on the right when traveling south on Granny White Pike. |
| | During the retreat from Nashville, Colonel Edmund Rucker's brigade attempted to block the Union pursuit by erecting a barricade of fence rails and logs across Granny White Pike, 1/2 mile south of this spot. During the ensuing night attack by Union . . . — — Map (db m60230) HM |
| On Franklin Pike (Tennessee Route 31) at Curtiswood Lane North, on the right when traveling north on Franklin Pike. |
| | Lee's Corps held the right flank of the line in the final stages of the battle, linking with Stewart to the west. Here it extended east, then south around Peach Orchard Hill. Violent attacks by Steedman's brigades were repulsed bloodily: Lee did not . . . — — Map (db m81429) HM |
| Near 27th Avenue North at Parthenon Avenue, on the right when traveling north. Reported missing. |
| | The hill to the west was a strong point in the system of permanent Federal defenses, started in 1862, which extended to the river on both sides of the town. Artillery was emplaced here from time to time. — — Map (db m84792) HM |
| On Lealand Lane north of Stonewall Drive, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Loring's division of Stewart's Corps, Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee, fought behind this stone wall Dec. 16, 1864. All Federal Attacks were beaten back until the Confederate line was broken a mile to the west. The division retreated south . . . — — Map (db m147098) HM WM |
| On Hillsboro Pike (U.S. 431) at Hobbs Road, on the right when traveling south on Hillsboro Pike. |
| | 0.3 mi. west was Redoubt No. 4 in Hood's detached supporting works. Garrisoned by Lumsden's Battery of smoothbore Napoleons, supported by 100 men of the 29th Alabama Infantry under Capt. Foster, it was finally overrun by the assault of 12 infantry . . . — — Map (db m151596) HM |
| On Charlotte Avenue (U.S. 70) 0.2 miles east of White Bridge Pike (Tennessee Route 155), on the right when traveling east. |
| | Forming the outer are of the Federal main attack, R.W. Johnson's 6th Cavalry Division, Wilson's Corps, here hit Rucker's Confederate Cavalry Brigade, west of Richland Creek. Withdrawing south to Harding Road, Rucker held there until bypassing . . . — — Map (db m151694) HM |
| On 8th Avenue South (Tennessee Route 6) south of Alloway Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | The Federal defensive line ran NE & SW through here. Ft. Casino was on the hill to the west, Fort Negley to the northeast. Garrisoned on Dec. 2 by Schofield's XXIII Corps, it was occupied by Cruft's Provisional Division when the battle began. The . . . — — Map (db m151765) HM |
| On Woodmont Boulevard at Hopkins Street, on the right when traveling west on Woodmont Boulevard. |
| | Trenches about 20 ft. N of this point, held by Loring's Division, were the center of the Confederate main line before the Battle of Nashville. On Dec. 15, 1864, Redoubt No. 1, a key artillery salient 200 yds. NW, fired on Federal forces until . . . — — Map (db m52850) HM |
| On Battlefield Drive at Granny White Pike, on the right when traveling east on Battlefield Drive. |
| |
Battle
of
Nashville
1864
Oh, valorous gray, in the grave of your fate,
Oh, glorious blue, in the long dead years,
You were sown in sorrow and harrowed in hate,
But your harvest is a Nation's tears,
For the message you left . . . — — Map (db m76476) WM |
| On Clifton Lane at Granny White Pike, on the right when traveling west on Clifton Lane. |
| | The Battle of Nashville Monument
The Statue
The Battle of Nashville Monument was commissioned by the Ladies Battlefield Association (Mrs. James E. Caldwell, President) and created by Giuseppe Moretti. (Look for his signature at the . . . — — Map (db m103211) HM |
| | Raged around this point April 2, 1781
between Cherokee Indians and settlers.
Loosed by Mrs. James Robertson, dogs
from the Fort attacked the Indians
allowing settlers to escape to the Fort.
Many were killed including
Captian James Leiper. — — Map (db m72268) HM WM |
| Near Harding Pike (U.S. 70S) 0.1 miles north of Leake Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| |
The Belle Meade Distillery once stood 3 miles east of Belle Meade Farm on the Harding Pike (where St. Thomas Hospital stands today). The location was known as Bosley Springs, the waters from which feed the Richland Creek that runs in front of . . . — — Map (db m158321) HM |
| On Windsor Drive at Blackburn Avenue, on the left when traveling west on Windsor Drive. |
| | Platted in 1915 by developer Johnson Bransford. Belle Meade Golf Links is one of the early subdivisions that arose from the dissolution of the world-famous Belle Meade Plantation. This small residential district represents early 20th century . . . — — Map (db m147106) HM |
| Near Harding Pike (U.S. 70S) 0.2 miles north of Leake Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | (overview)
In September 1864, after Union Gen. William T. Sherman defeated Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood at Atlanta, Hood led the Army of Tennessee northwest against Shermans supply lines. Rather than contest Shermans “March to . . . — — Map (db m68971) HM |
| Near Harding Pike (U.S. 70S) 0.2 miles north of Leake Avenue when traveling north. |
| | Confederate Gen. William Hicks “Billy” Jackson (1835–1903), who acquired Belle Meade Plantation after the war, served with distinction throughout the Western Theater of the Civil War. He was an excellent horseman, a skill that . . . — — Map (db m68973) HM |
| On Old Harding Pike at Belle Pointe Drive, on the right when traveling north on Old Harding Pike. |
| | The original log part of this house was built about 1818 by Abram DeMoss and named Belle Vue for the house his father, Lewis DeMoss, built in 1797 overlooking the Harpeth River a mile southwest. In time the name was given to the Nashville & . . . — — Map (db m147117) HM |
| On Ashland City Highway (State Highway 12) at Old Hickory Boulevard, on the right when traveling west on Ashland City Highway. |
| | Bells Bend, first known as White's Bend, is an 18-square-mile area encompassed by a U-shaped bend in the Cumberland River. Numerous archaeological sites indicate that the area has been inhabited for at least 10,000 years. Bells Bend has thrived as . . . — — Map (db m147916) HM |
| On 16th Avenue South just south of Grand Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Belmont Church and Koinonia Coffeehouse
Koinonia (Greek for 'fellowship') Coffeehouse opened in 1973 with artists such as Dogwood, Fireworks and Brown Bannister boldly sharing their faith through contemporary music. It became a destination for . . . — — Map (db m147530) HM |
| On McGavock Pike at Cumberland Trace, on the right when traveling south on McGavock Pike. |
| | On the present site of Two Rivers High School, Belmont Domestic Academy, a girl's boarding school was founded in 1815. It was conducted by Mr. and Mrs. John J. Abercrombie in a large frame house formerly the residence of David Buchanan. Among the . . . — — Map (db m151771) HM |
| On Acklen Avenue east of Belmonat Boulevard, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This mansion was built in 1853 as a summer home for Joseph and Adelicia Acklen. An 1860 addition by architect Adolphus Heiman expanded the mansion's size to 36 rooms. The entrance to the 177 acre estate, which featured gardens decorated with marble . . . — — Map (db m52143) HM |
| On Belmont Boulevard at Beechwood Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Belmont Boulevard. |
| | When Adelicia Acklen's estate was sold in 1890, the Belmont Mansion and its ground became Belmont College. Other portions, and parts of the neighboring Sunnyside Mansion property, were subdivided into residential lots by the Belmont Land Co. In . . . — — Map (db m52304) HM |
| On Charlotte Avenue (State Highway 24) at 15th Avenue North, on the right when traveling east on Charlotte Avenue. |
| | Formerly United Methodist Neighborhood Centers, Bethlehem Centers of Nashville began as settlement houses: Wesley House (1894), Centenary Center (1908), and Bethlehem Center (1911). Bethlehem Center was one of the first locations for African . . . — — Map (db m147461) HM |
| On 18th Avenue South south of Capers Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Betty Nixon was a trailblazing woman in Nashville politics, an ardent preservationist,
and a relentless advocate for the city's people and neighborhoods. She served on the Metro
Council from 1975 to 1987, was the first woman to chair its Budget . . . — — Map (db m154866) HM |
| On 5th Ave N 0.2 miles north of Broadway. |
| | In December 1945, Grand Ole Opry star Bill Monroe and his mandolin brought to the Ryman Auditorium stage a band that created a new American musical form. With the banjo style of Earl Scruggs and the guitar of Lester Flatt, the new musical genre . . . — — Map (db m24069) HM |
| On Charlotte Avenue at McLemore Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Charlotte Avenue. |
| | 1. First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (1848) 2. Gay Street Christian Church (1859) 3. Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1887) 4. St. Andrews Presbyterian Church (1898) 5. St. John AME Church (1863) 6. Spruce Street Baptist Church (1848) These . . . — — Map (db m147484) HM |
| On Music Square East at Music Circle North, on the right when traveling north on Music Square East. |
| | BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.), an organization that collects performance royalties for songwriters and music publishers in all genres of music, opened its doors in New York in 1940. BMI was the first performance rights organization to represent what . . . — — Map (db m60229) HM |
| On Meharry Boulevard east of 21st Avenue North, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Z. Alexander Looby (1899-1972) was a prominent civil rights lawyer from the late 1930s until the late 1960s. He also served on the Nashville City Council and the Metropolitan Council. In the pre-dawn hours of April 19, 1960, during a boycott of . . . — — Map (db m147892) HM |
| On Music Square East at Music Circle South, on the right when traveling north on Music Square East. |
| | In 1955, brothers Owen and Harold Bradley built a recording studio in the basement of a house on this site. They added another studio here in an army Quonset Hut, producing hits by Patsy Cline, Red Foley, Brenda Lee, Marty Robbins, Sonny James, and . . . — — Map (db m59523) HM |
| On Elm Hill Pike west of Massman Drive, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Arthur Redmond, a European brewer who immigrated to Nashville in 1815, established a brewery and bakery on Chicken Pike, now Elm Hill Pike. Situated along the east side of Mill Creek near Foster's and Buchanan's mills, he brewed porter and ale and . . . — — Map (db m151769) HM |
| On Elm Hill Pike at Hurt Drive, on the right when traveling west on Elm Hill Pike. |
| | James Buchanan (1763-1841) built this two-story single pen log house with hall and parlor plan c1807. The single pen log addition was added c1820 to accommodate the Buchanan family's sixteen children. The house displays a high level of craftsmanship . . . — — Map (db m147565) HM |
| On Elm Hill Pike west of Massman Drive, on the right when traveling west. |
| | One of Cumberland settlements,
established here in 1780. The fort
was attacked, Sept. 30, 1792, by about
300 Creeks and Lower Cherokees
under Chiachattalla. Aided by the
heroism and efficiency of Mrs.
Buchanan and other women in . . . — — Map (db m147557) HM |
| On 15th Avenue North 0.1 miles south of Charlotte Avenue (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling south. |
| |
The oldest known African-American congregation in Nashville, Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in a brick house near Sulphur Springs in 1832, as the "African Mission” of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church. . . . — — Map (db m147462) HM |
| On Buena Vista Pike 0.1 miles south of Beals Lane, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Lt. Alexander Ewing was commissioned in the Continental Army in Sept. 1777 and promoted to Capt. in 1781. That year, while serving as aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Greene, he was wounded at Guilford Courthouse. Ewing moved to Davidson Co. c. 1786 and . . . — — Map (db m147789) HM |
| On 8th Avenue South at Broadway on 8th Avenue South. |
| | Born in Virginia came to Nashville in 1782. Became a noted defender against the Indians of Old Fort Nashboro and the frontier settlements. Captain of a spy company of the Davidson County Regiment, participated in the Nickajack Expedition which ended . . . — — Map (db m84181) HM |
| On Rains Avenue at Merritt Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Rains Avenue. |
| | On Christmas Day 1779, John Rains led his family and livestock across the frozen Cumberland and settled in this vicinity. In 1784 he built a fort that enclosed this hill and the spring 75 yards east. At James Robertson's orders he often led a . . . — — Map (db m147540) HM |
| On 2nd Avenue South just north of Lea Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | On this site stood the residence of Captain Thomas Green Ryman, owner of the Ryman steamboat line and builder of the Union Gospel Tabernacle, renamed Ryman Auditorium after his death in 1904. The Queen Anne frame house with a slate roof, seven . . . — — Map (db m147537) HM |
| On Jackson St., on the right when traveling west. |
| | This building, completed in 1889, was the first gymnasium built at any predominantly black college in the United States. In 1949, it was rededicated as an art gallery and named in honor of Carl Van Vechten, a New York music critic, author, . . . — — Map (db m4507) HM |
| | Known to be one of the oldest houses remaining
from the early American era.
Originally located on Cane Ridge Road at Antioch, Tennessee.
The materials were removed piece-by-piece and rebuilt exactly
as it stood when occupied by the . . . — — Map (db m104384) HM |
| On Monroe Street east of 7th Avenue North, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Women from the Methodist Training School founded Warioto Settlement House in 1908. Renamed Centenary Methodist Institute, CMI moved to this location by 1921. CMI worked with rural migrant families in the North Nashville area called Kalb Hollow, . . . — — Map (db m147773) HM |
| On Gower Road 0.1 miles north of Hickory Trail Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Centenary United Methodist Church
Rev. William Gower built the first Gower's Chapel on his farm in 1805. A larger chapel, erected in 1850 on Gower land, also served as the local schoolhouse. On Oct. 5, 1884, the newly named Centenary Methodist . . . — — Map (db m147425) HM |
| On Rains Avenue just south of Southgate Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Founded in 1915 as the first public high school in the county system, Central High School stood here from 1921-1971. One of the earliest student government associations in the South began here. Many graduates became city and county political . . . — — Map (db m147122) HM |
| On Charlotte Avenue (U.S. 70) east of 48th Avenue North, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Route of early settlers to Charlotte, Memphis, and the Southwest. Opened about 1800. Town and road bear the name of Charlotte Reeves Robertson, wife of Gen'l. James Robertson. — — Map (db m151613) HM |
| On Morrow Road just south of Terry Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1783, Chickasaw chiefs met with white settlers at a spring 100 yards north and agreed on land rights — the Cumberland country for the settlers, the Tennessee River lands beyond the Duck River ridge for the Chickasaw. This tribe became firm . . . — — Map (db m147822) HM |
| | Front Organized in 1829, Christ Church was Nashville's first Episcopal parish. The present Victorian Gothic church designed by Francis Hatch Kimball of New York, opened for service on Dec. 16, 1894; the tower , by local architect Russell E. . . . — — Map (db m81433) HM |
| On Jefferson Street near 21st Ave N., on the right when traveling east. |
| |
(Obverse)
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company is the oldest, continuously operated African-American bank in the United States. Formerly known as the One-Cent Savings Bank and Trust Company and organized for the uplift of African . . . — — Map (db m81434) HM |
| On 4th Avenue South (Tennessee Route 11) at Oak Street, on the right when traveling south on 4th Avenue South. |
| | First established in 1822, the remains of many early settlers were then brought here for permanent burial. Among the more than 20,000 persons buried here are Gen. James Robertson, Gov. William Carroll, Sec. of Treasury George W. Campbell, Lt. Gen. . . . — — Map (db m74357) HM WM |
| On Fatherland Street just east of South 5th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The portion of East Nashville known as Edgefield, the name suggested by Gov. Neill S. Brown, was incorporated as a city Jan. 2, 1869. Its approximate bounds were Shelby Ave., Sevier St., So. 10th St., Berry St., Cowan Ave. and the river. It's first . . . — — Map (db m147721) HM |
| On 14th Avenue North at Phillips Street, on the right when traveling north on 14th Avenue North. |
| | Founded in South Nashville in 1865, Clark Memorial moved to North Nashville in 1936 and to this location in 1945. The church was central to the Civil Rights movement in Nashville, with activist James M. Lawson conducting classes here in 1959 on . . . — — Map (db m147778) HM |
| Near Lebanon Pike at Rivercrest Pass. |
| | Dr. James Hoggatt, owner of the 1,500-acre Clover Bottom Farm, also owned sixty slaves here. One of them was John McCline, who lived here with his three brothers and his grandmother. McCline cared for the farm's horses and cattle among other tasks. . . . — — Map (db m147621) HM |
| On Jefferson Street 0.1 miles west of 26th Avenue North, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Jefferson Street developed as a vibrant African-American commercial district in the late-19th and early-20th century. As Fisk University, Tenn. A&I (Tenn. State Univ.) and Meharry Medical College grew, more restaurants, shops and music venues . . . — — Map (db m147885) HM |
| On Centennial Boulevard at Bomar Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Centennial Boulevard. |
| | In 1786, the State of N.C. granted Gen. James Robertson several large tracts of land in this area. Robertson's Bend was renamed after the Cockrill family who established several farms and a mill here before the Civil War. The Romanesque-style third . . . — — Map (db m147820) HM |
| On 49th Avenue North just north of Delaware Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Through the efforts of Mark Sterling Cockrill and Lemuel Davis, a school serving West Nashville children in grades l-8 opened near here in 1888. High school grades were soon added and the school became West Nashville High School. Following . . . — — Map (db m147438) HM |
| On West End Avenue (U.S. 70S), on the right when traveling south. |
| | The house of John Cockrill, an early settler, stood about 60 yards north, near a large spring, whose waters ran northeast into Lick Branch, which emptied Great Salt Lick, around which Nashville was founded. A blacksmith shop stood under the great . . . — — Map (db m12765) HM |
| On Park Avenue just east of 49th Avenue North, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Cohn School
Designed by architects Asmus and Clark and opened in 1928 as a junior high school, Cohn
School was named in memory of Corinne Lieberman Cohn, one of the first female
members of the school board. Jonas H. Sikes served as first . . . — — Map (db m147440) HM |
| Near 1st Avenue North 0.1 miles south of Church Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In honor of
Colonel James Robertson
Born 1742 in Virginia
Died 1814 in Tennessee
He came from eastern North Carolina to the Watauga Settlement in what is now eastern Tennessee 1769-1770, where he was a leader in Civil and Indian . . . — — Map (db m24240) HM |
| On 1st Avenue North 0.1 miles north of Broadway (U.S. 70), on the right when traveling north. |
| | In appreciation of
the services of
Colonel John Donelson
Born in Delaware, 1718.
Died in Kentucky 1786.
Distinguished in early life in Virginia as a civil, industrial and military leader.
Member of the House of Burgesses, iron . . . — — Map (db m59376) HM |
| Near 1st Avenue North 0.1 miles south of Church Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In recognition of
Colonel Richard Henderson
Born in Virginia 1735
Died in North Carolina 1785
—————
Founder and Promoter of the noted
"Transylvania Land Company"
Whose purchase from the Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m24373) HM |
| On Lebanon Pike (U.S. 70) 0.5 miles east of Fesslers Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | After the War Between the States, the women of Nashville bought land at Mount Olivet, and formed Confederate Circle. The remains of about 1,500 Confederate soldiers were moved here from area battlefields. Seven Confederate generals were buried in or . . . — — Map (db m76477) HM |
| On Granny White Pike at Shackleford Road, on the right when traveling south on Granny White Pike. |
| | After being outflanked by the advance of the Federal XVI Corps (Smith), Loring and Walthall put their divisions in a defensive line west of this road, facing westward. Here, their determined defense brought Federal advances against the Confederate . . . — — Map (db m53348) HM |
| On Greenwood Avenue just west of Scott Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This house, built from Sewanee stone, was the home of Cora Howe, who created a bucolic, English-style garden here in the early 1920s. Known as 'Wildings,' her garden contained over 300 plant types, many of them native species, and a rare, . . . — — Map (db m147735) HM |
| On Shadow Lane 0.1 miles north of Airpark Drive, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Cornelia Fort (1919-43), Nashville's first woman flying instructor volunteer, Army's WAFS, WWII, was the first woman pilot to die on war duty in American history. "I am grateful that my one talent, flying, was useful to my country," she wrote . . . — — Map (db m147711) HM |
| | This neo-Gothic structure first served as the Erastus M. Cravath Memorial Library. Named for Cravath, the university's first president (1875-1900), it was designed by Nashville architect Henry Hibbs and built in 1929-30. The interior walls depict . . . — — Map (db m4502) HM |
| On Hogan Road 0.1 miles east of Trousdale Drive, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Crieve Hall neighborhood was part of the over 2,000-acre estate of John Overton, on which he built Travellers Rest in 1799. Jesse M. Overton built an English Tudor-style house called Overton Hall near here in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Farrell . . . — — Map (db m147409) HM |
| On Wedgewood Avenue at Rains Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Wedgewood Avenue. |
| | The Cumberland Fair and Racing Association sponsored harness racing here 1891-1894. The great match race between Hal Pointer of Tennessee and Direct of California occurred Oct. 21, 1891. Direct won all 3 heats in record time for a pacing race. . . . — — Map (db m147120) HM |
| | President Rutherford B. Hayes laid its cornerstone in 1877. Designed by Treasury Department architect W.A. Potter, it was occupied in 1882 by collectors of customs and internal revenue, U.S. courts, and Nashville's main post office. Addition to rear . . . — — Map (db m147164) HM |
| Near Harding Pike (U.S. 70S) 0.1 miles north of Leake Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| |
In 1884 the dairy house was completed with walls measuring two feet thick made of ashlar limestone, perfect for the cool keeping of dairy products. Nashville stonemason, Con
Callaghan, constructed the building in the Romanesque Revival style and . . . — — Map (db m158285) HM |
| On Edgehill Avenue at 12 Avenue South on Edgehill Avenue. |
| | Bailey, a pioneer of the Grand Old Opry and its first black musician, lived in the Edgehill neighborhood for nearly 60 years. His shoe-shine shop was on 12th Ave., South, near this intersection. His harmonica performance of the "Pan American Blues" . . . — — Map (db m74369) HM |
| Near 1st Avenue South, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Jaques-Timothe De Montbrun, French Canadian fur trader and later lieutenant governor of the Illinois Country, visited in this area as early as 1769. On at least one occasion he took refuge in the cave 0.9 mile N. when attacked by Indians. He settled . . . — — Map (db m83845) HM |
| On Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling south on Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd. |
| | After the pre-dawn bombing of atty. Z. Alexander Looby's home, approx. 3000 civil rights leaders and students from Tenn. St., Fisk, Meharry, American Baptist College, and Pearl High School marched along this route on April 19, 1960, to meet with . . . — — Map (db m4226) HM |
| On 19th Avenue South south of Scaritt Place, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Library and archives of the 19th c. American religious unity movement which became: the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Christian Churches; and Churches of Christ. Located here, 1958, in the Thomas W. Phillips Memorial. Architects: Hoffman & . . . — — Map (db m52367) HM |
| On Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd. at Meharry Blvd, on the right when traveling south on Dr. D. B. Todd, Jr. Blvd.. |
| | Turpin, a 1918 alumnus, was appointed Professor in 1937 and acting dean of the Dental School in 1938. Attesting to his profound devotion to Meharry's School of Dentistry, which was founded in 1886, Turpin gave his personal finances to keep the . . . — — Map (db m4225) HM |
| On 5th Ave N at Church St, on the right when traveling north on 5th Ave N. |
| | From 1814 to 1955 this was the site of the First Presbyterian Church. President Andrew Jackson was received into the church in 1838. James K. Polk was inaugurated governor here in 1839. The building designed in the Egyptian style by William . . . — — Map (db m121842) HM |
| On Meharry Boulevard at 21st Avenue North, on the right when traveling east on Meharry Boulevard. |
| | In 1927, Dr. West came to Meharry Medical College as Associate Professor of Chemistry. A 1930 Julius Rosenwald Fellowship Recipient and a 1935 Fellow of the General Education Board, he returned to Meharry to serve as the first Ph. D on faculty as . . . — — Map (db m4519) HM |
| On Jefferson Street at 14th Avenue North, on the left when traveling west on Jefferson Street. |
| | Matthew Walker was born December 7, 1906 in Waterproof, La. After attending school in New Orleans, he graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1934 and began teaching at Hubbard Hospital. Walker served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery from . . . — — Map (db m147775) HM |
| On Granny White Pike, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Dry-stack stone walls, a Scots-Irish building tradition adapted by slaves in the early 19th century, were common throughout middle Tennessee. During the 1864 Battle of Nashville, Brigadier General Henry Jackson was captured at this wall on the . . . — — Map (db m53354) HM |
| On 25th Avenue South, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Marvin T. Duncan, a graduate of Webb School (Bell Buckle) and Vanderbilt University, founded Duncan School in 1908 at this site on 25th Avenue S. He and his wife, Pauline, taught at the school until it closed in 1952. The Duncans dedicated their . . . — — Map (db m52171) HM |
| On White Bridge Pike 0.1 miles east of Post Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The deadliest train wreck in US history occurred on July 9, 1918, when two crowded trains collided head-on at Dutchmans Curve. The impact caused passenger cars to derail into surrounding cornfields, and fires broke out throughout the wreckage. Over . . . — — Map (db m52596) HM |
| On North 1st Street north of Oldham Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Nashville's worst disaster by fire occurred Wednesday, March 22, 1916. It began at 11:47 a.m. in the rear of Seagraves Planing Mill, 80 yards west, and was swept eastwardly by 44 to 51 mph gales. It was brought under control at 4:30 p.m. near So. . . . — — Map (db m147761) HM |
| On Greenwood Avenue 0.1 miles west of Scott Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Eastwood area, a suburb originally named Eastland in 1901, was laid out as the Brownsville plan in 1855, the land carved from the Weakley tract. Their c.1855 house remains at the northeast corner of Chapel and Greenwood. Eastland Avenue, . . . — — Map (db m147715) HM |
| On 14th Avenue South north of Wade Avenue, on the right. |
| | Will Edmondson, born about 1883 of former slave parents in the Hillsboro area of Davidson County, worked as a railroad and hospital laborer until 1931, when he began his primitive limestone carvings. Working without formal training, he produced some . . . — — Map (db m147165) HM |
| On 7th Avenue North just north of Union Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Nashville insurance executive Edwin W. Craig launched radio station WSM on October 5, 1925 and made plans for a radio program called the "Barn Dance,” which first aired on November 28, 1925. WSM program director George D. Hay renamed the "Barn . . . — — Map (db m147728) HM |
| Near Tennessee Route 100 0.4 miles west of Old Hickory Road (Tennessee Highway 254), on the left when traveling west. |
| | Edwin Warner (1870-1945) succeeded his brother Percy on the Park Board in 1927 and served for eighteen years. He personally directed the acquisition of most of the Warner Park acreage and supervised WPA development of the property. Warner organized . . . — — Map (db m147109) HM |
| On Fairfax Avenue at 25th Avenue South, on the right when traveling west on Fairfax Avenue. |
| | Elizabeth Rhodes Atchison, born in Nashville on Feb. 26, 1858, married prominent banker John H. Eakin in 1882. Active in many civic causes, in 1917 she became the first woman to join the Nashville City School Board. After her death in 1936, a new . . . — — Map (db m147450) HM |
| On 17th Avenue North, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Ella Sheppard, an original Fisk Jubilee Singer, lecturer and teacher, was born on February 4, 1851. She entered Fisk in 1868, and was selected to join the group of nine singers that set out on October 6, 1871 to raise funds to save the school. She . . . — — Map (db m62508) HM |
| On Doctor DB Todd Junior Boulevard at 17th Avenue North, on the right when traveling south on Doctor DB Todd Junior Boulevard. |
| | Organized January 15, 1885, Nashville's first African-American fire unit, Engine Company No. 4, was located at 424 Woodland St. On January 2, 1892 Capt. C. C. Gowdy, hoseman Harvey Ewing, and reel driver Stokely Allen were killed while battling a . . . — — Map (db m151703) HM |
| On Donelson Pike (State Highway 255) at Ezell Road, on the right when traveling north on Donelson Pike. |
| | In 1805 Jeremiah Ezell (1775-1838) moved here from Virginia and purchased 17 acres of land on Mill Creek. In 1816 he served on the Court of Pleas for Davidson County. In 1888, his grandson, Henry Clay Ezell, built this brick vernacular Queen Anne . . . — — Map (db m147166) HM |
| On 8th Avenue South (U.S. 31) at Chestnut Street, on the right when traveling north on 8th Avenue South. |
| | Fall School, built in 1898, is the oldest public school building remaining in Nashville. Named after Mr. P.S. Fall, a prominent Nashville businessman and member of the Board of Education from 1865-1867, it served as an elementary school until 1970. . . . — — Map (db m147507) HM |
| On 21st Avenue South at Medical Center Drive, on the right when traveling south on 21st Avenue South. |
| | Near here, the interior defensive lines ran southwest to cross Harding Pike; the total length of these works was about 7 miles. First garrisoned by Wood's IV Corps, it was occupied Dec. 15 by Donaldson's Division of Quarter-master employees. Part of . . . — — Map (db m52145) HM |
| On West End Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The hill to the west was a strong point in the system of permanent Federal defenses, started in 1862, which extended to the river on both sides of town. Artillery was emplaced here from time to time. — — Map (db m61935) HM |
| On 5th Avenue North south of Garfield Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Named for local merchant and former school board member Rudolph Fehr, and designed by architects Dougherty and Gardner, Fehr School opened in 1924. On Sept. 9, 1957, Fehr became one of the first schools in Nashville to desegregate, admitting four . . . — — Map (db m147770) HM |
| Near 4th Avenue South at Oak Street, on the right when traveling south. |
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Ante-bellum newspaper editor and Brigadier General in Confederate Army. Killed at battle of Fishing Creek, Kentucky, January 19, 1862. He was first Confederate general killed in the West. — — Map (db m86365) HM |
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