On Blairfield Drive, on the right when traveling east.
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
On Antioch Pike, 0.1 miles north of Goodwin Road, on the right when traveling north. Reported missing.
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 m220577) HM
On Old Hickory Boulevard, 0.1 miles east of Cane Ridge Road, on the right when traveling west.
Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church, built in 1859, replaced a log building which occupied land donated by Edwin Austin & Thomas Boaz in 1826. One of the best known pastors was Hugh Bone Hill who also preached at the Jerusalem Church in . . . — — Map (db m146619) HM
On Reeves Road, 0.1 miles east of McBride Road, on the left when traveling east.
Located near Mill Creek, Locust Hill is one of the earliest brick homes in Middle Tennessee. Built c. 1805, it was home to the Charles Hays family until after the Civil War. The Federal-style house features intricately carved mantles and millwork, . . . — — Map (db m147404) HM
On Cane Ridge Road, 0.4 miles north of Old Hickory Boulevard, on the right when traveling north.
In 1871, District 6 school commissioners John Briley, Benjiah Gray and Jason Austin bought one acre of land from James Thompson for an African American school. In 1873, African American members of the Benevolent Society of Olive Branch No. 38 . . . — — Map (db m147704) HM
On Nolensville Pike (Alternate U.S. 41) at Barnes Road, on the right when traveling north on Nolensville Pike.
The house of his birth, Feb. 18, 1796, was on this site. Graduate of Nashville's Cumberland College, 1814, he was a state senator in 1817 and Member of Congress, 1827 to 1841, when appointed Secretary of War. He was nominated for the Presidency by . . . — — Map (db m151191) HM
On Old Burkitt Road, 0.1 miles east of Nolensville Pike, on the right when traveling north. Reported missing.
Racial Terror Lynchings in America
Thousands of African American men, women, and children were the victims of lynching and racial terror violence in the United States in the century following the end of the Civil War. As the federal . . . — — Map (db m220683) HM
On Crossings Boulevard west of Mt. View Road, on the right when traveling west.
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
On Blue Hole Road, 0.3 miles south of Antioch Pike, on the left when traveling south.
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
On Smith Springs Road, 0.2 miles east of Old Anderson Road, on the left when traveling east.
Construction of the J. Percy Priest Dam and
Reservoir began on June 2, 1963. The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers project was named
for Priest, a teacher and Tennessean editor who
served in Congress from 1940 until his death
in 1956. Several small . . . — — Map (db m205206) HM
