Nashville contributed one of the most important aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in America by developing ten rules for sit-in protestors. As the movement grew, organizers were concerned that all those involved in the protest had not been . . . — — Map (db m207829) HM
James K. Polk moved back to Nashville after graduating from the University of North Carolina. he went to work for Felix Grundy a prominent Nashville lawyer and congressman who resided just west of Deaderick Street in a home called 'Grundy Place'. . . . — — Map (db m213215) HM
In 1922, 16 poets and critics, many from Vanderbilt University, began issuing their poetry magazine, The Fugitive. Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren went on to write essays for the Agrarian manifesto, . . . — — Map (db m216737) HM
In 1920, Tennessee's deciding vote for ratification of the 19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution gave all American women the right to vote. — — Map (db m216729) HM
CREATING A SPOTLIGHT: TELLING MUSIC'S STORY
PLA Media has placed major record and Independent artists in the spotlight since the 1980s with campaigns that include media coverage, special events and promotions. The award- winning company also . . . — — Map (db m234411) HM
On March 14, 1933, a tornado struck the Public Square, damaging and destroying buildings on the north and east sides. The tornado moved through East Nashville and onto Inglewood and Donelson. At least eleven people were killed, including several . . . — — Map (db m206242) HM
By 1930, there were 4,000 miles of railroad track in Tennessee, linking virtually every town and city in the state and providing the primary means of transportation for both goods and services. During 1940s, some 95 percent of all military equipment . . . — — Map (db m218440) HM
Created in 2014, this park protects one of the few remaining undisturbed Mississippian period villages in Davidson County. The Native Americans who lived here were part of a landscape of farms, villages, and mound centers that flourished along the . . . — — Map (db m247864) HM
The Academic Building at Fisk University was designed by Nashville architect Moses McKissack and was made possible by a gift from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. On May 22, 1908, William H. Taft, later 27th President of the United States, laid the . . . — — Map (db m4511) HM
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing . . . — — Map (db m247932) HM WM
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great Civil War, testing whether that . . . — — Map (db m146957) WM
Adelicia Hayes was the daughter of Oliver Bliss Hayes. At times Hayes was a lawyer, judge, Presbyterian minister and a land speculator. Adelicia married 50-year-old Isaac Franklin when she was 22. Franklin's home, Fairvue, still stands outside of . . . — — Map (db m166484) HM
Born Potsdam, Prussia. Came to Nashville 1838. Lived in home on this site. Architect, Engineer & Builder; Designed Univ. of Nash. Main Bldg., Central State Hosp. Main Bldg., Suspension Bridge over Cumberland River. Masonic Leader; Adj. U.S. Army . . . — — Map (db m4512) HM
Though Heiman was first buried in Mississippi, admirers brought Heiman's remains to Confederate Circle where they now rest beneath the monument. Confederate officers had recommended he be promoted to brigadier general, and this was confirmed four . . . — — Map (db m166483) HM
One of the last remaining buildings on the Square, 206 Public Square was home to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday School Union beginning in 1886, when Rev. Charles S. Smith purchased the building. The A.M.E. Sunday School Union, . . . — — Map (db m206241) HM
Tennessee became a leading agricultural state, Nashville was selected as the permanent capital, and the establishment of new schools and colleges reflected a growing refinement. Thousands of Cherokee were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands . . . — — Map (db m215445) HM
Tennessee's tradition of farming excellence
was featured in the Agriculture Building with
its displays of the most modern equipment
and machinery for planting, cultivating, and
harvesting. Interior exhibits featured crops
such as corn, tobacco, . . . — — Map (db m206490) HM
Born here Jan. 1. 1858, a graduate of the Naval Academy in 1879, he commanded the USS Cushing in the War with Spain. In 1917 took command of the Cruiser and Transport Force, US Navy, which convoyed Allied troops to France without the loss of a man. . . . — — Map (db m147503) HM
Regarded as the symbol of dance in her adopted hometown of Nashville, Ellen Albertine Chaiser Maxwell (1902-96) operated the Albertine School of the Dance (1936-80). She had danced with Chicago Opera, Adolf Baum Dance Co., and Ruth St. Denis Dance . . . — — Map (db m24195) HM
Alex Haley won the 1977 Special Pulitzer Prize for Roots, a book that sparked a nationwide revival in family and local history. — — Map (db m218817) HM
In 1829, The Rev. Alex Green joined the Methodist Episcopal Church's Nashville Conference. Elected vice-president of the TN Conference's Temperance Society in 1835, Green was instrumental in the Southern Methodist Publishing House's move to . . . — — Map (db m147788) HM
When photographer and art collector Alfred Stieglitz passed away in 1946, his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, arranged the transfer of 97 works from his collection to Fisk University. The selection included works by such noted artists as Paul . . . — — Map (db m214510) HM
The Alfred Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University
When photographer and art collector Alfred Stieglitz passed away in 1946, his wife, artist Georgia O'Keeffe, arranged the transfer of 97 works from his collection to Fisk University. The . . . — — Map (db m207834) HM
Nashville barber Alfred Z. Kelley was lead
plaintiff in Kelley v. Board of Education, a federal lawsuit filed Sept. 23. 1955, on behalf of his son Robert and 20 other African American
children. In December, the suit was amended
to include two . . . — — Map (db m146420) HM
Alice Thompson (1777-1828) married Revolutionary War veteran Edward Collinsworth (1759-1816) in Dec. 1795, after spending two years as a captive at the Muscogee (Creek) tribal town Kialegee, in present-day Alabama. Alice and Edward reared seven . . . — — Map (db m207153) HM
From comedy to tragedy, opera to rock, acting classes to dance recitals, the performing arts have had a home in Centennial Park from the beginning.
Concerts and theatrical events in the park are popular today, but before most homes contained a . . . — — Map (db m182158) HM
Armed with his rifle and pistol his courage and skill, this one Tennessean silenced a German Battalion of 35 machine guns, killing 25 enemy soldiers, and capturing 132 in the Argonne Forest of France, October 8, 1918
Right side: . . . — — Map (db m86362) HM
Tennessee captured the national spotlight with World War I hero Alvin C. York and with the critical vote of the General Assembly for woman's suffrage.
Multitudes also listened every Saturday night to the "Grand Ole Opry,” the longest-running radio . . . — — Map (db m216249) HM
American Baptist College was founded in 1924 as the American Baptist Theological Seminary. The college has educated Civil rights champions, national leaders and outstanding Christian ministers. During the civil rights movement the school was a . . . — — Map (db m208817) HM
★★In Peace and War★★
In Honor of the American Merchant Seamen who Served in All Our Wars Since 1775
★Killed in Action in World War II★ . . . — — Map (db m207044) WM
Nashville is known as "Music City," but the entire state has contributed enormously to internationally recognized American Music that speaks across cultures. Source: Based on information supplied by the Country Music Foundation Library and Media . . . — — Map (db m213047) HM
Amqui Station
Amqui Station was constructed in 1910 as a Lousiville and Nashville (L&N) railroad switching and passenger depot in Madison, Tennessee. The original station was located at the junction of the L&N and the Nashville, . . . — — Map (db m310609) HM
Walden Ridge separates the Cumberland Mountains from the Tennessee Valley in Anderson County, named for Judge and Senator Joseph Anderson. Norris, flooding 36,000 acres, was TVA’s first hydroelectric dam. Twice state militia occupied parts of . . . — — Map (db m201293) HM
Andrew and Rachel were both born in 1767 - Rachel. in the Virginia frontier and Andrew, in the Waxhaws region in South Carolina. Rachel traveled down the rivers on a flatboat with her family when they moved to Nashville in 1780. Andrew came to . . . — — Map (db m213216) HM
Son of William Ewing - Ann Shannon.
Lived in Rockingham Co., VA. 1742 - 1780.
Signer of Cumberland Compact, May 1, 1780.
Leading figure in preservation of Nashborough Settlement and nearby forts.
Clerk of Gov't. of Notables, 1783.
Ambassador to . . . — — Map (db m205321) HM
Andrew Jackson
Born March 15, 1767 - Died June 8, 1845
Grand Master of Tennessee 1822-1823
President of the United States 1829-1837 — — Map (db m214563) HM
Born March 15, 1767 Died June 8, 1845
Seventh President of the United States 1829-1837
Commander of victorious American forces
at Battle of New Orleans January 8, 1815
This equestrian statue by Clark Mills was erected by the Tennessee . . . — — Map (db m85487) HM WM
In 1836, President Andrew Jackson declared the Treaty of New Echota binding, thereby mandating Cherokee emigrate by 1838 or be removed. — — Map (db m215447) HM
governor of Tennessee from 1853 to 1857, was appointed military governor of the state in March 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln after the fall of Nashville. At Johnson's urging, the Union Army began constructing fortifications around the city. . . . — — Map (db m178420) HM
Seventeenth President of the United States resided in a house at this site while
Military Governor of Tennessee 1862 - 1865
This marker placed by Camps of Greater Nashville
Woodmen of the World — — Map (db m207002) HM
In 1921, Ann Lee Keys Worley of Sullivan County, first woman elected to the state senate, introduced a bill permitting women to hold any public office. — — Map (db m216736) HM
Near this spot stood the home of John Cockrill and his wife, Ann Robertson Cockrill, sister of General James Robertson. Born in North Carolina, on February 10, 1757, Ann Robertson came to the Cumberland Settlement with Donelson's flotilla early in . . . — — Map (db m294141) HM
Ann Robertson Cockrill was one of the first
settlers to arrive in the Nashville area. She joined
her brother, Nashville founder James Robertson,
in 1780, traveling from the Watauga settlement by
way of the Holston, Tennessee, Ohio, . . . — — Map (db m294142) HM
Anne Dudley played a significant role in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by the State of Tennessee. A native of Nashville, she served as president of the Nashville Equal Suffrage League, 1911-15; president of the Tennessee Equal . . . — — Map (db m4524) HM
After efforts begun by Anne M. Davis in 1923, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was officially established in 1931. It embraced the oldest mountain range on the North American continent and one of the richest botanical grounds on earth. — — Map (db m218441) HM
Antioch High School opened here in the fall
of 1933, after community members from Antioch,
Cane Ridge and Mims (Bakertown) signed
petitions to the Board of Education urging them
to choose Antioch, not Una, as the school
location. Previously the . . . — — Map (db m224208) HM
The Mill Creek Valley Turnpike Company was incorporated by the Tenn. Gen. Assembly on Jan. 21, 1846. Starting near the four mile mark of Nolensville Pike, the road went through Mill Creek valley, "crossing main Mill creek at or near Rains' mills, . . . — — Map (db m277758) HM
On the 19th of April, 1960, Nashville proclaimed itself a beacon of civility, common sense and reconciliation.
Following months of civil rights sit-ins, the home of black City Councilman Z. Alexander Looby was bombed in the early hours of the . . . — — Map (db m208974) HM
As was the case with many upper-class Southern families in the 19th and early 20th century, the Overton's engaged in the breeding of fine horses. However, Travellers Rest was not devoted solely to breeding one type of horse until 1929. Jacob . . . — — Map (db m247941) HM
At this site lived Arna W. Bontemps, one of the most prolific contributors to the Harlem or Negro Renaissance. From 1943 to 1965, Bontemps, an award-winning poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, historian, editor, and author of children's books, . . . — — Map (db m4959) HM
500 yards east of here, Maj. Gen. T. J. Wood led an assault by his IV Corps against the Confederate skirmish line on the hill, eventually carrying it. Attacking the main line about 600 yards south, Wood was unable to take it by direct assault, the . . . — — Map (db m52302) HM
Assumption Church
Nashville’s second oldest Catholic church, dedicated Aug. 14, 1859, its rectory on right was added in 1874, school on left in 1879. The present altar, windows, and steeple were added later. The Germantown neighborhood grew . . . — — Map (db m4517) HM
By the 1870s, the Sulphur Springs Bottom took the name Athletic Park. Locals found the open fields where the areas earliest inhabitants once lived ideal for picnics and recreational activities,
including two sports in their infancy: football and . . . — — Map (db m175207) HM
Dr. Manley received a B.A. at Spelman College in Atlanta in 1955 and went straight to Meharry Medical College, where she graduated in 1959. She became a commissioned officer of U.S. Public Health in 1976 with a rank of captain. She reached the . . . — — Map (db m209115) HM
Avery's Trace", also known as the North Carolina Road, from Campbell's Station west of Knoxville to the Cumberland settlements, facilitated east-west travel by 1788. — — Map (db m214977) HM
A native of Knoxville, Tennessee, Avon N. Williams, Jr., was an attorney, statewide civil rights leader, politician, educator, and a founder of the Davidson County Independent Political Council and the Tennessee Voters Council. In 1950, as a . . . — — Map (db m147486) HM
Built in 1913, the 162 Building was originally occupied by Standard Furniture and Southern Door and Glass. However, it was best known for its association with the Nashville Banner which occupied the building from 1920 to 1938. Following the . . . — — Map (db m182288) HM
In the spring of 1862, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces. As the Union army took control, it established camps around the State Capitol building, including in this area, one of the most historic places in . . . — — Map (db m160531) HM
Professional baseball returned to Nashville in 1978. Vanderbilt University baseball coach, Larry Schmittou, along with country
music artists Conway Twitty, Jerry Reed, Cal Smith, and several
addnional investors, purchased a Double-A minor . . . — — Map (db m175198) HM
