Opening in May 2004, Gateway Bridge has become a modern landmark in the Nashville skyline. In January 2006, the Metro Council redesignated the bridge the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge, honoring 134,000 Tennesseans in military service during . . . — — Map (db m196871) HM
Founded in 1902, the Nashville Bridge Company, also known as NABRICO, established an international reputation for building movable bridges. By 1915, NABRICO operated this section of river bank as a slip for launching and repairing ships that . . . — — Map (db m241225) HM
Originally constructed in 1909, the Shelby Street Bridge reopened as a pedestrian-only bridge after an extensive renovation in 2003. Architecturally, the bridge was the first in North America utilizing concrete arched trusses, which have been . . . — — Map (db m134602) HM
On Feb. 25, 1862, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to Federal forces. Two days prior, the 4th Ohio Vol. Cavalry arrived from Bowling Green, KY and set up pickets along the east bank of the river. Gen. D.C. Buell arrived . . . — — Map (db m147722) HM
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
Rev. Thomas Brown Craighead settled this land in 1795. He was a prominent Presbyterian minister and founding father of Davidson Academy, now known as Cumberland College. Mr. A.W. Johnson, a wealthy local merchant, purchased the property from . . . — — Map (db m166580) HM
Founded in 1866 under the direction of Rev. Randall B. Vandavall, First Baptist Church East Nashville built this Classical Revival building between 1928 and 1931, during the height of Rev. W.S. Ellingson's career. Nashville artist Francis Euphemia . . . — — Map (db m145790) HM
A native of Nashville, Hill McAlister was elected City Attorney in 1905. In 1911 he was elected to the State Senate where he supported legislation in the areas of health, education, and labor. He later served five terms as State Treasurer and two . . . — — Map (db m145810) HM
Named in honor of James L. Meigs, Nashville's second superintendent of public school. Meigs was established in 1883 as an elementary school for African-American students. An African American, Robert S. White, served as its first principal. Since . . . — — Map (db m175905) HM
The early peoples who enjoyed the bounty of these bottom lands by the Cumberland River were able not only to survive - they thrived in very sophisticated and populous settlements. Evidence also shows that they produced beautiful works of . . . — — Map (db m221460) HM
Rock City was an African American community established c. 1881, which was soon followed by the founding of First Baptist Church Rock City. Named for a rock quarry in the area, the approx. boundaries were Cahal Ave. to the south, Branch St. to the . . . — — Map (db m147714) HM
Humans settled along the Cumberland River at least 14,000 years ago, during the end of the last Ice Age. For thousands of years, they lived in small, multifamily groups, moving around seasonally as they hunted, fished, and foraged for native . . . — — Map (db m221457) HM
This land used to be covered with dense, ancient forest. Most of it was cut years ago for timber and farmland. Forests rebuild in stages through a process called succession. Sun-loving wildflowers and grasses appear first. These "pioneer" plants . . . — — Map (db m221459) HM
The bridge allows trains to bypass downtown Union Station and is an important connection between rail lines in Alabama and Kentucky. Towering approximately 100 feet above the water, the bridge is the seam connecting historic Shelby Park and Shelby . . . — — Map (db m221462) HM
The water in front of you traveled a great distance. Most recently, it navigated the Middle Cumberland Watershed, a network of creeks and streams that crosses 54 counties across Kentucky and Tennessee. In urban watersheds like ours, rainwater rushes . . . — — Map (db m221484) HM
Shelby Park Baseball Field #1 was constructed in 1914. Play began that same year. The field has been in continuous use for both youth and adult baseball games since its inception.
There have literally been thousands of games played on Shelby #1 . . . — — Map (db m221482) HM
This institution of learning was erected on part of a tract of land once owned by Isaac Litton. He was the grandfather of Litton Hickman, Judge of Davidson County from 1918 to 1950. Named in honor of both, the school formally opened on October 25, . . . — — Map (db m151764) HM
This 9-hole golf course, originally named Riverview, was opened in 1930, renovated in 1967, with a new clubhouse constructed in 1972. It was closed after the 1998 season and reopened on May 9, 2001 as a First Tee Facility with the entire course . . . — — Map (db m221487) HM
Eastland
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. . . . — — Map (db m204724) 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
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
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 . . . — — Map (db m147165) HM
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
Edgehill's history dates from the decades before the Civil War, when country estates were located on and around Meridian Hill, now E.S. Rose Park. The construction and defense of Union fortifications during the Civil War drew many African Americans . . . — — Map (db m162478) HM
Reverend William L. 'Bill' Barnes, a pastor, civil rights leader and teacher, was often called the 'conscience of Nashville.' Rev. Barnes passionately agitated for legislation that would help those marginalized by race, social class, sexual . . . — — Map (db m147529) HM
On this site, William Edmonson (1874-1951) created renowned limestone sculptures in an open-air studio next to his home. In 1937 he became the first African American to earn a solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Born in rural Davidson . . . — — Map (db m162450) 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
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
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
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
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
In 1871 Fisk University, established for emancipated African Americans in 1866, faced closure due to financial exigency. George Leonard White, the school's treasurer and music teacher, organized a small choral group composed of student singers, . . . — — Map (db m151700) HM
Fisk Memorial Chapel, deigned by New York architect William Bigelow, was erected in 1892 in memory of General Clinton B. Fisk, a founder of the University. The religious and cultural center of the campus, the Chapel has welcomed foreign dignitaries, . . . — — Map (db m4268) HM
Fisk University, founded in 1866 by the American Missionary Association, was chartered in 1867 to provide higher education for men and women regardless of race. Named for General Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau for . . . — — Map (db m4510) HM
Erected in 1876, Jubilee Hall was the first permanent structure built on the Fisk University campus. Named for Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers, this Victorian Gothic structure is sometimes called "frozen music." Jubilee Hall is a National . . . — — Map (db m4148) HM
Marshall Keeble was born to ex-slave parents Robert and Mittie Keeble in Rutherford County on December 7, 1878. At age 18, Keeble delivered his first sermon at Jackson Street Church of Christ where he remained a member until his death. One of the . . . — — Map (db m213320) HM
This house, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1905 as the home of Reuben B. and Mary Knowles Richardson. Richardson, who served as Capt. of Eng. Co. No.4 from 1893 to 1923, was one of the first Blacks to obtain this . . . — — Map (db m4513) HM
Born a slave in Madison County, Samuel McElwee began teaching school in Haywood County at the age of 16. In 1882, he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives and one year later was graduated from Fisk University. The only African . . . — — Map (db m81465) HM
Talley-Brady Hall was named for well-known African-American chemists Thomas Talley and Saint Elmo Brady, both graduates of Fisk University. Talley was chairman of the chemistry department from 1902 to 1927. In 1916 Saint Elmo Brady was one of the . . . — — Map (db m4503) HM
This Italianate structure was built ca. 1876 as the home of Richard Harris, an entrepreneur and owner of Harris Furniture Co. In the late 1880s, he became the first Black trustee of Fisk University. W.G. Waterman, a Fisk professor, became owner of . . . — — Map (db m4501) HM
(Obverse): In 1937 this Victorian-style house became the home of John W. Work III. A teacher and composer for 39 years, he served his alma mater by enriching the Fisk musical traditions. Director of the Jubilee Singers, Work III, a serious . . . — — Map (db m5509) HM
The Little Theatre, circa 1860, is the oldest structure on the Fisk University campus. Erected as part of a Union Army hospital barracks during the Civil War, it was known as the "Railroad Hospital." The interior was remodeled for use as the Fisk . . . — — Map (db m4506) HM
Recognized during his lifetime primarily as a chemist, teacher, and administrator at Fisk University, Thomas W. Talley (1870- 1952) was also Tennessee's first African-American folklorist. A native of Bedford County, he began collecting folk songs . . . — — Map (db m5507) HM
1868 — Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
1963 — Died in Accra, Ghana
1885 — Great Barrington High School
1888 — Fisk University, A.B.
1890 — Harvard University, A.B.
1892 — Harvard University, M.A.
1893 — University of Berlin . . . — — Map (db m182182) 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
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 April 6. 1921, Pi Chapter was chartered as the
16th Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Incorporated on the campus of Meharry Medical
College by Mrs. Pauline Kigh-Reed, Central and
Western Organizer. The Chapter members . . . — — Map (db m197068) HM
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
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
Dr. David B. Todd, Jr. graduated from Meharry Medical College in 1956 at the head of his class. Passionate about healthy hearts, he became the first black cardiovascular surgeon in Nashville and led the team that performed the first open-heart . . . — — Map (db m229873) HM
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
Josie Wells came to Nashville in 1900 to attend Meharry Medical College of Walden
University. One of three women graduates in 1904, she specialized in caring for women and
children. She held free clinics for needy families, regardless of race. . . . — — Map (db m198730) HM
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
Meharry College graduate. As organizer for TN Woman's Suffrage Association. Helped register about 2,500 black women voters in 1919. — — Map (db m224032) HM
Fisk University is home to the Bulldogs, and its athletic programs have a long history of success. Over the years, from football to basketball, golf, tennis, and track, Fisk has produced exceptional student athletes, and cultivated them as both . . . — — Map (db m208816) HM
1889-1983
In 1913, Hulda M. Lyttle was one of three graduates in the first nursing education class of Meharry's G. W. Hubbard Hospital. In 1916, Lyttle returned to Meharry as Director of Nurse Training. Between 1921 and 1938, she served as . . . — — Map (db m4223) HM
This Dutch Colonial house was built in 1931 for James Weldon Johnson. He served as U.S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, editor of the New York Age, and field secretary of the NAACP. Johnson's poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," set to music by his . . . — — Map (db m4520) HM
The Lloyd C. Elam, M.D., Mental Health Center is named for the nationally
esteemed Meharry psychiatrist who served as the sixth President of Meharry
Medical College from 1968 to 1981. Dr. Elam's skillful cultivation of capital
resources made . . . — — Map (db m205358) HM
Z. Alexander Looby was a prominent civil rights attorney and political activist. In the spring of 1960 he headed the defense team representing protestors that participated in the organized sit-ins at Nashville's downtown lunch counters. On April 19, . . . — — Map (db m208980) HM
Meharry Medical College, established in 1876 through the efforts of Dr. George W. Hubbard, Dr. Willliam J. Sneed, and Samuel Meharry, is the only AMA accredited, privately endowed, predominantly Negro medical school in the world. During its first 90 . . . — — Map (db m5506) HM
After the Civil War, Methodist clergymen organized the Freedman's Aid Society to elevate education for African Americans. In 1876, with contributions form the Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the Meharry brothers, Samuel, . . . — — Map (db m207837) HM
Beginning in late 1959, a group of Nashville college students from Fisk University, Tennessee A&I, Meharry Medical College and American Baptist Theological Seminary, along with local religious leaders, began to discuss a mass collective action . . . — — Map (db m207833) HM
This intersection marks the location of the former headquarters of the Nashville Student Movement (NSM) established October 1959. Led by students committed to the ethos of direct action and civil disobedience, as taught by the Reverend James Lawson, . . . — — Map (db m147893) HM
Named in honor of Frank S. Royal, Sr., M.D., Class of 1968, the first alumnus elected Chairman of the Meharry Medical College Board of Trustees (1989-2005). His steadfast leadership contributed immensely to Meharry's prominence among America's . . . — — Map (db m229872) 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
Less than five years after its creation, Fisk University was struggling financially, so in 1871 the school sent a nine-member student chorus on a fundraising tour of the northeasten United States. However, small audiences, meager donations, and the . . . — — Map (db m213246) HM
During the Civil War, the hill upon which Fisk University sits today (one of the highest points in Nashville) was a Confederate fort. Upon its capture by Union troops, it was used as an army barracks until after the war had ended, at which point . . . — — Map (db m213247) HM
William J. Faulkner, a Congregational minister, folklorist and author, lived at this site from 1935 to 1947. He served as Fisk University's Dean of Men from 1934 to 1942 and as Dean of the Chapel from 1943 to 1953, During his tenure, he reorganized . . . — — Map (db m147901) 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 m236947) 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
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
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
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
Filling a jug with sulfur water from the trough in Morgan Park was a once popular activity, as W.T. Gatlin, age 80, shows in this 1946 photo.
The healing mineral water was believed to promote longevity, cure hangovers, repel rats, and was used as . . . — — Map (db m242726) HM
On this site stood one of the principal stations of the Cumberland Settlements. Felix Robertson, son of Col. James Robertson and the first white child born in the Settlement, was born here, Jan. 11, 1781. On Jan. 15 the fort was heavily attacked by . . . — — Map (db m4131) HM
Pictured: George Green (L), son of Nathan "Nearest"
Green and Jack Daniel (R). Nearest taught Jack
Daniel how to make whiskey. Nearest was the first
Master Distiller for Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey
and the first African-American Master . . . — — Map (db m197855) HM
European immigrants established Germantown, the first suburb in North Nashville, in the 1850s. Large brick townhouses stood next to modest workers' cottages, illustrating the area's economic and social diversity. World War I and changes in public . . . — — Map (db m4518) HM
Nashville native Mary Catherine Strobel was the first female employee of the Nashville Fire Department, serving from 1948 to 1977. She also devoted her life to helping the poor. She lived in the family home, 1212 7th Avenue North, from 1938 to 1971. . . . — — Map (db m147771) HM
In 1909, the eight-year-old Nashville Park Board purchased Frederick Laitenberger's German beer garden to provide a park for the working-class neighborhood surrounding the Warioto Cotton Mills and the Morgan-Hamilton Bag Company (later the . . . — — Map (db m242729) HM
In 1842, 18-year-old George H. Ratterman arrived in Nashville from Hanover (present-day Germany). He became a successful merchant and built his residence on North Summer Street (now 1215 Fifth Ave. North). Circa 1870, he erected this row of two . . . — — Map (db m242704) HM
The Tennessee State Capitol building, a National Historic Landmark, was designed by renowned architect William Strickland (who also designed the National Historic Landmark First Presbyterian Church at 5th Ave and Church St in Downtown) and . . . — — Map (db m224772) HM
By 1800 Whitsett's Chapel became this area's first school. In Jan. 1899 Flat Rock native, philanthropist and real estate developer R.W. Turner and wife Sallie W. Turner gave 2 acres for a new 9th dist. public school. The first Turner School was . . . — — Map (db m147124) 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
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
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
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
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
E. L. Hampton's pasture became “Hampton Field” when transient airplanes began landing here during the first World War. About 2,000 feet long from here west, bounded north and south by Golf Club Lane and Woodmont Boulevard, it continued in use as . . . — — Map (db m53379) HM
Francis Craig, noted composer and bandleader, was born in Dickson, Tennessee on September 10, 1900, the son of
Methodist minister Robert James Craig and Fannie Frost Craig. At age ten, he played the piano by ear. In 1919,
Mr. Craig entered . . . — — Map (db m174707) HM
Here, near the center of a 64 acre woodland amusement park owned by the Nashville Railway & Light Co., the Glendale streetcar line turned back toward town. The park opened in 1888 to attract passengers for the railway - originally steam, electric . . . — — Map (db m147097) HM
Hillsboro High School was built in 1939 to
serve rural students between Bellevue and
Antioch. It is named for Hillsboro Pike, which
runs along the western boundary of the
school property. In 1952, following a complete
renovation, the school was . . . — — Map (db m223713) HM
This cabin was home, periodically, up to 1882 of educator, editor, and religious leader David Lipscomb and wife, Margaret Zellner Lipscomb. The Associated Ladies for Lipscomb moved it here from Bell's Bend in 1985. In 1903 the Lipscombs built . . . — — Map (db m53347) HM
A double log house and a few log cabins, partially picketed, stood here about 1790. On May 9, 1793, 4 children on their way to the spring were attacked by Indians. Three were scalped and killed. One escaped. The home of Charles Bosley, wealthy . . . — — Map (db m53362) HM
Dedicated educator who served Davidson County public schools 57 years as a teacher, the first Supervisor of Elementary Education 1911-1944, and Director of Character Education, Miss Julia oversaw schools countywide. A progressive, she pioneered . . . — — Map (db m53385) HM
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