Thomas Talbot, Revolutionary War veteran wounded at the Battle of Kings Mountain,
South Carolina, served as sheriff of Washington County and Senate clerk for the State of
Franklin before moving to Nashville in 1789. On this site, he acquired 290 . . . — — Map (db m151762) HM
Music publishing in Nashville began in 1824 when "The Western Harmony" was published by Allen D. Carden and Samuel J. Rogers. A book of hymns and instruction for singing, it was printed by Carey A. Harris on the press of his newspaper, the Nashville . . . — — Map (db m147736) HM
About 1783 Gen’l James Robertson erected
a fort on this site. Important
councils were held here. His brother
Mark, and his son, Peyton, were killed by Indians near by.
About 1796, he erected a large two-story
brick house, facing east and . . . — — Map (db m163416) HM
"In the hands of the enemy they are used with much effect against us. In our hands we must try to use them with the best possible effect against the rebels." — General in Chief H. W. Halleck to Major General U. S. Grant, March 31, 1863 . . . — — Map (db m179193) HM
Along with the Parthenon, Lake Watauga is one of few features in Centennial Park today that remains from the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The lake's waters have reflected the elaborate buildings that once encircled it, the brilliant . . . — — Map (db m182164) HM
Civil War Dead
An estimated 700,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in the Civil War between April 1861 and April 1865. As the death toll rose, the U.S. government struggled with the urgent but unplanned need to bury fallen Union . . . — — Map (db m146936) 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, Chattanooga, and St. Louis . . . — — Map (db m166610) HM
Side 1
From prehistory to the present, the Cumberland River has shaped our city. By the early 1800's, the town of Nashville was thriving because of its proximity to this natural water highway.
Goods such as flour, tobacco, pork and iron . . . — — Map (db m107696) 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
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
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
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
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
On hills S.W. And N.E. of here stood the redoubts
of the line of Gen. John B. Hood, Dec. 15, 1864
Erected by
Gen. Wm. B. Bate Chap. U. D. C.
1940 — — Map (db m164097) HM
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
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
(side 1)
After defeating the Confederate army at Franklin, Union troops under Gen. John Schofield returned to Nashville, Confederate troops under Gen. John Bell Hood followed. and spent 2 weeks preparing to assault the capital. The . . . — — Map (db m184683) HM
On Dec. 16, 1864, Gen. S.D. Lee's Corps, Army of Tennessee, held this right flank of Hood's defense line which ran south along the crest of this ridge. Violent artillery fire and infantry attacks by the corps of Wood and Steedman failed to dislodge . . . — — Map (db m25651) HM
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
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
Forming the outer arc 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
Using the defensive salient 500 yards east, Wood's Corps, with the XVI Corps on its right, swung southwest to envelop the left of the Confederate line, 1 1/2 miles south, and pushed it back in spite of determined resistance. The XXIII Corps . . . — — Map (db m28423) HM
Here the outer Federal Defensive line, which stretched 7 mi. around the city, crossed Hillsboro Pike. It was used at the commencement of the battle on Dec. 15 by Wood's IV Corps as a line of departure for the main attack. Faint traces of the old . . . — — Map (db m28420) HM
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
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
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
From a line of departure running NE-SW through here, Maj. Gen. Steedman’s Provisional Detachment of 6 brigades at 6:00 a.m. launched a holding attack southwestward against the Confederate right, on high ground about 2 miles south. The main attack, . . . — — Map (db m164104) HM
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
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
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
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 m163075) HM
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 m164057) HM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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 Sherman’s supply lines. Rather than contest Sherman’s “March to . . . — — Map (db m68971) HM
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
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
Bells Bend
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 . . . — — Map (db m191958) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m147530) HM
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
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
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
Cheatham's small stone is about 100 feet back. Cheatham was born in Nashville. His mother's grandfather was James Robertson, the founder of Nashville. He grew up on the family plantation on the Cumberland River's Cockrell Bend. The Cheathams came . . . — — Map (db m166477) HM
Benton, bordered on the east by the Tennessee River, is made of 80 million year old sand, clay, silt and gravel and 350 million year old limestone, shale, sandstone and chert. This chert preserved near perfect mollusks and bivalve shellfish fossils. . . . — — Map (db m199703) HM
Berger Building
In 1926, Samuel W. Berger hired local architect
Ozrow J. Billis to design this stylish building
outfitted with colorful glazed terra cotta
tiles. Berger was a Hungarian immigrant
and one of the city's leading retail . . . — — Map (db m183243) HM
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
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
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
The Bison Meadow is a 2 acre prairie planted in 1994 on a terminal
branch of the historic Natchez Trace which is today Hillsboro Road.
This "old indian trail” is where buffalo, bear, elk and other large
animals once roamed north to the big salt . . . — — Map (db m188896) HM
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
The Nashville Blue Triangle, the Negro
branch of the Young Women's Christian
Association, was established in 1919.
Located downtown in the thriving
African American business district, it
developed programs that supported
the African American . . . — — Map (db m194931) HM
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
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
Owen and Harold Bradley operated a one-story,
concrete block film and recording studio located
behind this Hillsboro Village storefront from
1953-1955. "Queen of Country Music” Kitty Wells, bluegrass legends Bill Monroe and the Stanley . . . — — Map (db m163031) HM
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
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
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
No original records Survive för this burial ground of the Buchanan family and friends. Early interments likely include Samuel Buchanan, evidently killed by Indians outside the station walls in 1786, and John Buchanan, Sr., killed inside the . . . — — Map (db m175151) HM
The Cumberland Settlements
In the winter of 1779 - 1780, the family of John and Jane Trindle Buchanan was among the earliest permanent American settlers of the bend in the Cumberland River where the city of Nashville, Tennessee is now . . . — — Map (db m175150) HM
A lasting monument to the early pioneers and defenders of Nashville who sacrificed their lives and who now lie in peace including Revolutionary War patriot, John "Major" Buchanan and his wife, Sarah “Sally” Ridley Buchanan. — — Map (db m175152) HM
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
"Start the works at once, the most important first. They should be in the edge of the city, to command the principal thoroughfares and other prominent points". — Union Major General Don Carlos Buell
Remains of an ancient Native American metropolis lie deep beneath the surface of modern day Nashville. Both here and directly to the east across the Cumberland River once stood a bustling city with thousands of inhabitants. Archaeologists have . . . — — Map (db m173821) HM
The Nashville Equal Suffrage League was formed nearby in 1911 at the former Tulane
Hotel. In coordination with the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association the energetic
efforts of women leaders influenced public opinion in the decade ahead. . . . — — Map (db m163927) HM
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
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
born in Philadelphia, was a West Point graduate, a member of the Corps of Engineers, and a noted theorist on coastal masonry fortifications. Promoted to chief engineer of the Union Army of the Ohio, in August 1862 he was ordered to design and build . . . — — Map (db m178421) HM
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 . . . — — Map (db m84181) HM
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 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
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
Caroline Meriwether was the first child of Charles and Caroline Meriwether. Their estate, “Woodstock”, overlapped the Tennessee-Kentucky border near Clarksville. Her father's chief occupation was raising thoroughbred horses, which led . . . — — Map (db m166494) 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 Carper generations — — Map (db m192658) HM
After the Chickasaw withdrew from West Tennessee, the influx of settlers seeking good farm land found here, “an unbroken forest infested with bears, wolves, panthers, deer, wildcats, the smaller wild animals, and snakes.” After clearing of their . . . — — Map (db m199697) HM
The right of the main Federal defense line crossed Charlotte Pike here. In the opening phase of the battle, mounted and dismounted cavalry of Wilson's Corps moved out of the Federal works, supporting the advance of Smith's XVÍ Corps in a turning . . . — — Map (db m163402) HM
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