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Nashville-Davidson, TN

Born in Potsdam, Prussia.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1829, The Rev. Alex Green joined the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Nashville Conference.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville barber Alfred Z. Kelley was lead plaintiff in Kelley v. Board of Education, a federal lawsuit filed Sept. 23, 1955, on behalf...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Alice Thompson (1777-1828) married Revolutionary War veteran Edward Collinsworth (1759-1816) in Dec. 1795, after spending two years as a...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Antioch High School opened here in the fall of 1933, after community members from Antioch, Cane Ridge and Mims (Bakertown) signed...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Mill Creek Valley Turnpike Company was incorporated by the Tenn.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

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...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville’s second oldest Catholic church, dedicated Aug. 14, 1859, its rectory on right was added in 1874, school on left in 1879.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This .2-acre lot was purchased by East Nashville citizens and presented to the city on December 12, 1921 as a public park and playground.

Forest Hills, TN

During the retreat from Nashville, Colonel Edmund Rucker's brigade attempted to block the Union pursuit by erecting a barricade of fence...

Forest Hills, TN

During the retreat from Nashville, Colonel Edmund Rucker’s brigade attempted to block the Union pursuit by erecting a barricade of fence...

Oak Hill, TN

After the withdrawal from the main Confederate line at Peach Orchard Hill, Lt. Gen. Stephen D. Lee formed a battle line across Franklin...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

After defeating the Confederate army at Franklin, Union troops under Gen. John Schofield returned to Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Trenches about 20ft.

Oak Hill, TN

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...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On this hill was fought the decisive encounter of the Battle of Nashville December 16, 1864.

Oak Hill, TN

Loring’s division of Stewart’s Corps, Hood’s Confederate Army of Tennessee, fought behind this stone wall Dec. 16, 1864.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Platted in 1915 by developer Johnson Bransford, Belle Meade Golf Links is one of the early subdivisions that arose from the dissolution...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

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,...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Bellevue High School opened in 1931, serving almost 100 students.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Bells Bend, first known as White’s Bend, is an 18-square-mile area encompassed by a U-shaped bend in the Cumberland River.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Koinonia (Greek for “fellowship”) Coffeehouse opened in 1973 with artists such as Dogwood, Fireworks and Brown Bannister boldly sharing...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

When Adelicia Acklen’s estate was sold in 1890, the Belmont Mansion and its grounds became Belmont College.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1926, Samuel W. Berger hired local architect Ozrow J. Billis to design this stylish building outfitted with colorful glazed terra...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Betty Nixon was a trailblazing woman in Nashville politics, an ardent preservationist, and a relentless advocate for the city’s people...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

1. First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill (1848) 2. Gay Street Christian Church (1859) 3. Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1887) 4. St....

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1921 the State rented land west of Shute Lane and erected two hangars here for the 105th Observation Squadron, Tennessee National Guard.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Nashville Blue Triangle, the Negro branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association, was established in 1919.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.), an organization that collects performance royalties for songwriters and music publishers in all genres of...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1955, brothers Owen and Harold Bradley built a recording studio in the basement of a house on this site.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Arthur Redmond, a European brewer who immigrated to Nashville in 1815, established a brewery and bakery on Chicken Pike, now Elm Hill Pike.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

James Buchanan (1763-1841) built this two-story single pen log house with hall and parlor plan c1807.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Enslaved at birth in Rutherford County, Tenn.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Nashville Equal Suffrage League was formed nearby in 1911 at the former Tulane Hotel.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church, built in 1859, replaced a log building which occupied land donated by Edwin Austin & Thomas...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Lt. Alexander Ewing was commissioned in the Continental Army in Sept. 1777 and promoted to Capt. in 1781.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On Christmas Day 1779, John Rains led his family and livestock across the frozen Cumberland and settled in this vicinity.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On this site stood the residence of Captain Thomas Green Ryman, owner of the Ryman steamboat line and builder of the Union Gospel...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Women from the Methodist Training School founded Warioto Settlement House in 1908.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Founded in 1915 as the first public high school in the county system, Central High School stood here from 1921-1971.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1783, Chickasaw chiefs met with white settlers at a spring 100 yards north and agreed on land rights—the Cumberland country for the...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Organized in 1829, Christ Church was Nashville’s first Episcopal parish.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The portion of East Nashville known as Edgefield, the name suggested by Gov. Neill S. Brown, was incorporated as a city Jan. 2, 1869.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Founded in South Nashville in 1865, Clark Memorial moved to North Nashville in 1936 and to this location in 1945.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Built in 1858 by Dr. James Hoggatt on land inherited from his father, Capt. John Hoggatt, a Revolutionary War soldier, this fine Italian...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Jefferson Street developed as a vibrant African-American commercial district in the late-19th and early-20th century.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Cornelius Ridley’s teams won 684 games, 15 district, 8 region and 5 state championships at three Nashville schools from 1960-91.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1786, the State of N.C. granted Gen. James Robertson several large tracts of land in this area.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Designed by architects Asmus and Clark and opened in 1928 as a junior high school, Cohn School was named in memory of Corinne Lieberman...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Cornelia Fort (1919-43), Nashville’s first woman flying instructor volunteer, Army’s WAFS, WWII, was the first woman pilot to die on war...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

President Rutherford B. Hayes laid its cornerstone in 1877.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Library and archives of the 19th c. American religious unity movement which became: the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Christian...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

As early as 1815, school was held nearby at Stoner’s Lick Methodist Church.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Josie Wells came to Nashville in 1900 to attend Meharry Medical College of Walden University.

Oak Hill, TN

Dry-stack stone walls, a Scots-Irish building tradition adapted by slaves in the early 19th century, were common throughout middle...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Dudley Field opened on Oct. 14, 1922.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Marvin T. Duncan, a graduate of Webb School (Bell Buckle) and Vanderbilt University, founded Duncan School in 1908 at this site on 25th...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville’s worst disaster by fire occurred Wednesday, March 22, 1916.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Will Edmondson, born about 1883 of former slave parents in the Hillsboro area of Davidson County, worked as a railroad and hospital...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This 51 Mil. Gal. Reservoir was built 1887-89 on Kirkpatrick Hill, the site of Federal Fort Casino during Civil War.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Elizabeth Rhodes Atchison, born in Nashville on Feb. 26, 1858, married prominent banker John H. Eakin in 1882.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Ernest Rip Patton attended Tenn.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1805 Jeremiah Ezell (1775-1838) moved here from Virginia and purchased 17 acres of land on Mill Creek.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Fall School, built in 1898, is the oldest public school building remaining in Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Near here, the interior defensive lines ran southwest to cross Harding Pike; the total length of these works was about 7 miles.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

E. L. Hampton’s pasture became “Hampton Field” when transient airplanes began landing here during the first World War.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Organized in 1820, this is the church’s third downtown location.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Founded in 1866 under the direction of Rev. Randall B. Vandavall, First Baptist Church East Nashville built.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On Dec. 13, 1850, the first steam engine, Tennessee No. 1, ordered by the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad arrived at the wharf on the...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The guns of Fort Negley, commanding three turnpikes to the South & Southeast, opened the Battle of Nashville, Dec. 15, 1864.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Frederick Stump, an early settler in the Fort Nashboro area came from Pennsylvania by way of Georgia.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In March 1865, Congress established the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company Bank.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Gen. Thomas Overton served in the Revolutionary War and as Inspector of Revenue in N.C., the same position held by his brother Judge John...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

European immigrants established Germantown, the first suburb in North Nashville, in the 1850s.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

William J. Gerst opened the Gerst House restaurant in 1955, a year after the Wm.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Built in the 1830s, rebuilt in 1859, and expanded in 1880, Perry Dale Sr. and Alberta G. Dale purchased this two-story frame house in...

Oak Hill, TN

Lucinda “Granny” White of N.C. acquired 50 acres of land near Brown’s Creek on Jan. 2, 1803.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Clarence Eugene “Hank” Snow purchased this Madison home with his wife Minnie in 1950, not long after his first appearance on the Grand...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1968, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) was founded by Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., his son Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., and businessman Jack C....

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Heaton’s Station (also called Old Heaton Station, Eaton Station, and Heatonsburg) was founded by Amos Heaton after arriving here with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Ten yds. north stood toll gate and toll gate house erected by Nashville and Hillsboro Turnpike Co., Incorporated in 1848.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Belle Vue was the name Abraham Louis DeMoss gave the land he bought overlooking the Harpeth River in 1800.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Edgehill’s history dates from the decades before the Civil War, when country estates were located on and around Meridian Hill, now E.S....

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This building, renowned for its pure Gothic architecture and harmony of proportions, was designed by Wills & Dudley, of New York, in a...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church was established on Nov. 4, 1917, at 208 6th Ave S., the former site of Wallace Univ.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Sam Houston, a native of Virginia, moved to Nashville in 1818 to study law with Judge James Trimble.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Here was toll-gate No.2 of the Hyde's Ferry Turnpike Co., chartered in 1848 to build a road from Nashville to Ashland City and Sycamore...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Constructed in 1892 for Hose Company #1, this building is one of the earliest extant fire halls in Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

After success in Memphis with Sun Records, "Cowboy" Jack Clement founded Jack Clement Recording Studio in 1969, producing and writing for...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Andrew Jackson settled in Nashville in 1788 and served as Atty.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Jesse Shelton DeMoss was the grandson of Bellevue co-founder James DeMoss and the son of prosperous farmer Thomas DeMoss, of the Davidson...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

John Robert Lewis was born on Feb. 21, 1940 to sharecropper parents in Troy, Ala.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Tennessee novelist, poet, co-author, four-volume history, "Tennessee, the Volunteer State"; publisher, "Trotwood Monthly"; author of...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1783, the State of North Carolina granted Cumberland Compact signer Isaac Johnson 640 ac.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Born and reared in Washington, D.C., Joseph “Yusef” Harris graduated from Morehouse College and moved to Nashville in 1977 to pursue his...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Josephine Holloway graduated from Fisk Univ.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Dedicated educator who served Davidson County public schools 57 years as a teacher, the first Supervisor of Elementary Education...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Originally part of the Woodlawn estate, this property was subdivided in 1916 by Duncan Kenner and the Kenner Manor Land Company.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1976 Kurdish immigrants began arriving in Nashville and continued to emigrate here, fleeing persecutions in Iran, Iraq, Syria and...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Soon after the Civil War, freed slave families established farms and dairies in this community named for Lake Providence Missionary...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1888, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sought to make water travel on the Cumberland River easier by regulating water levels with a...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Located 250 yds. S.E., this famous pioneer spring served Lockeland mansion on site of present school building.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Located near Mill Creek, Locust Hill is one of the earliest brick homes in Middle Tennessee.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1786, the State of North Carolina deeded this land as part of a 640 acre grant to Revolutionary War Private and land surveyor James...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Luke Lea (1879-1945) envisioned this park, gave to the city in 1927 the original 868 acres, and asked that the land be named for his...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Madison College was founded in 1904 as Nashville Agricultural Normal Institute by Seventh-day Adventists on a farm of 412 acres.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

1834-1922 Chief Engr.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Chief Engr. Army of Tenn.

Goodlettsville, TN

Here on west bank of the creek that he discovered in 1772, Kasper Mansker and other first settlers built a log fort in 1779.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This Italianate-style 1881 factory first housed the Nashville Cotton Mills, which built the middle section c. 1885.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville native Mary Catherine Strobel was the first female employee of the Nashville Fire Department, serving from 1948 to 1977.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1897, Jacob May and his family moved to Nashville and opened the Rock City Hosiery Mill.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Revolutionary War Pvt. John Alford built a two-room house on this land c. 1810, expanding it in 1812 and 1820.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Meharry Medical College, established in 1876 through the efforts of Dr. George W. Hubbard, Dr. William J. Sneed, and Samuel Meharry, is...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Mill Creek Baptist Church, mother church of Southern Baptists in Davidson County, occupied two meeting houses at this site from 1797...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Formerly established in 1867 with a bequest of $20,000 by ironmaster Montgomery Bell, the roots of M.B.A. actually go back to 1785, with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1867, Jane Watson deeded land to several African-American families, many of them her former slaves.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Mud Tavern Community developed around the crossroads of the Elm Hill and McGavock Turnpikes.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The heart of Nashville's music business, Music Row began in 1955, when Owen Bradley opened the Quonset Hut, the first recording studio here.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1906, Norwegian-born Andres Ivarson Myhr and wife Minnie Bolton Myhr acquired land from Tabitha DeMoss and built “Maple Row,” named...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Nashville Medical Society, the first medical association in Tennessee, was founded March 5, 1821, by seven physicians in the log...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On April 24, 1880, Nashville began a month-long celebration of 100 years since the signing of the Cumberland Compact.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The city’s first fire-fighting force of volunteers was formed in May 1807.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Opened on this site February 1890, with a capacity of 60 beds.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Brown v. Topeka (1954) and Brown II (1955) the U.S. Supreme Court ordered public schools nationwide to end racial segregation “with...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Site of a farm implement factory operated by Messrs. Sharp and Hamilton, previous to the War Between the States.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1815, T.M. Burland opened a small brewery 1.5 miles west of Nashville along Cockrill Spring.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Formerly located at this site was First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, headquarters of the 1960s Sit-In Movement, led by Rev. Kelly Miller...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On May 18, 1875, members of several Nashville churches gathered at the Christian Church (138 Vine Street) after a religious revival...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville’s first public school, Hume School, opened here Feb. 26, 1855.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

June 1922, Boy Scout John H. DeWitt, Jr., started Nashville’s first radio station (WDAA) on the Ward-Belmont Campus.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Born in Giles County in 1810, Neill Smith Brown became a lawyer in 1834 and married Mary Ann Trimble (1816-1895) in 1839.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nettie Langston Napier had a Day Home Club on this site by 1907.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The original Newsom’s Mill was located upstream & was destroyed by flood in 1808.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Located 1100 Clay Street, North Nashville High School opened in 1940.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Built 1898, the Mary Lee Academy, the second school in the Oglesby Community, was named for its first teacher, Miss Mary Lee Clark.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This intersection, known as “The Triangle,” served as the commercial core of Old Hickory from the 1920s through the 1940s.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In Jan. 1918, the area known as Hadley’s Bend was purchased by the U.S. government to build a smokeless gunpowder factory to supply the...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1871, District 6 school commissioners John Briley, Benjiah Gray and Jason Austin bought one acre of land from James Thompson for an...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1927 8.25 acres of the Belle Meade Plantation were acquired from its owner Walter O. Parmer to use for a new school.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This is the “dream house” of country music icon Patsy Cline, born Virginia Patterson Hensley in 1932.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1935 Rev. John Thomas Patton (1884-1965) hired McKissack & McKissack to build this home for his family.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Construction of the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir began on June 2, 1963.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Percy Warner (1861-1927) was a pioneer in electric utilities and hydroelectric development in the South.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Private Peter Bashaw of Fauquier County, Va.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Thousands of African American men, women, and children were the victims of lynching and racial terror violence in the United States in...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Two blocks west, on the hill, stood Radnor, a college for young women.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Distinguished poet, critic, novelist, and teacher.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

RCA Records established a recording studio in this building in November 1957, with local offices run by guitarist-producer Chet Atkins.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Reverend Nelson G. Merry, born enslaved in 1824 in Kentucky, was brought to Tennessee by his master.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On April 24, 1780, William Gower, age 3½, arrived with his family at the Bluffs settlements, now Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Once a part of the Byrd Douglas plantation, the Nashville Land Improvement Company dedicated ten acres for a public park in 1887.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This early planned subdivision presents a largely unaltered picture of suburban residences in early 20th century Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Opened in 1927, Riverside Sanitarium and Hospital provided African-Americans in Nashville with modern healthcare and drew patients &...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Robert Emmitt Lillard was a fireman at the city’s first African American fire station, Engine Co. 11, until 1950, when he began...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Rock City was an African American community established c.1881, which was soon followed by the founding of First Baptist Church Rock City.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Union Gospel Tabernacle was built in 1892 after steamboat captain Thomas Ryman heard Rev. Sam P. Jones speak at a tent revival in 1885.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Mother Catherine McAuley (1778-1841) founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, with the mission to serve those in need.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Brick manufacturer and builder, who fought under General Andrew Jackson in the Creek campaigns and at the Battle of New Orleans, left at...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Federal defensive line ran northeast and southwest through here.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Lardner Clark, “Merchant and Ordinary Keeper,” came from Philadelphia, Penn. in the early 1780s with ten horses packed with goods to sell.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Nashville Gas Light Co., founded Mar. 1850, with General Washington Barrow, President, built first gas works in Tennessee for...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The city’s present waterworks was inaugurated at this site Oct. 1, 1833.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

St. Ann Catholic Church and School opened here in 1921.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Stratford High School opened in 1961, the last high school established by the Davidson County School Board before Metro consolidation.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Home of Mary Benton, widow of Jesse Benton who left Nashville after a famous feud with Andrew Jackson in 1813.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

After Union success to north in TN and KY, Col. John Kennett, 4th Ohio Vol. Cavalry, ordered Cpt.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On Feb. 25, 1862, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to Federal forces.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

A two-room frame school building was constructed here in 1907 to serve the children of newly-annexed West Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1832, the Tenn. legislature approved the state’s first asylum, established in 1840 southwest of Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On October 7, 1915, Dr. George Curtis, Albert F. Ganier, Judge H.Y. Hughes, Dr. George R. Mayfield, Dixon Merritt, and A.C. Webb met at...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes first opened its doors to 247 students in 1912.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This Federal-style home was built c1810 for John Brown Craighead and his first wife Jane Erwin Dickinson.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On Sept. 17, 1951, Harpeth Hall opened as an independent girls’ college preparatory school on the former P.M. Estes estate.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Nashville Brewery was founded by Jacob Stiefel on this location in 1859.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On Dec. 17, 1891, the Tenn.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

One of Nashville’s oldest streets, Elliston Place was a popular commercial corridor by 1930.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Seeing Eye, the world-famous dog guide training school, was incorporated in Nashville January 29, 1929, with headquarters in the...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Temple Cemetery was established in 1851 with the purchase of three acres by the Hebrew Benevolent Burial Association and still serves...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Jacques-Timothe’ De Montbrun, born on Mar. 23, 1741, in Boucherville, Quebec, was the first white man to live in the Nashville area.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

In 1844, noted educator, evangelist, and agriculturalist Tolbert Fanning started Franklin College, a liberal arts school near this site...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

George Tolbert, a farmer, bought 97½ acres here in 1879 that became known as Tolbert Hollow.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Site of electric street railway transfer station 1902-1940.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

By 1800 Whitsett’s Chapel became this area’s first school.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Built in 1859 by David H. McGavock, this mansion stands on land inherited by McGavock’s wife, Willie, from her father, William Harding.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

The Una community developed around the crossroads of Smith springs road and Old Murfreesboro Pike in the early 19th century.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Erected by the Louisville & Nashville Terminal Co. & dedicated Oct. 9, 1900, the Romanesque style building of Bowling Green Gray stone...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On June 7, 1976, 101 permanent representatives of the United Nations made a historic and unprecedented group visit to Nashville at the...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Bullet Records began in 1946 as one of Nashville’s first independent record labels.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Founded in 1915 as the successor to The Winthrop Model School at the University of Nashville, Peabody Demonstration School was...

Oak Hill, TN

Peach Orchard Hill, also called Overton Hill, was the site of significant fighting during the second day of the Battle of Nashville on...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Located immediately south, this fashionable place of entertainment was established by Messrs. Decker & Dyer in 1827 and operated for more...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Vine Street Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) traces its beginning to 1820 and the Baptist Church of Nashville.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Nashville’s Jewish community began in the 1840s.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, thereby giving all American...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

To prepare young men for College & for life, believing the first object of education to develop character, the second to develop...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Ward’s Seminary for Young Ladies, founded in 1865 by Dr. William E. Ward, stood at this site many years.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Land once known as Watkins Grove was given to the city in 1870 by brick maker and contractor Samuel Watkins.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

One of Nashville’s best examples of Colonial Revival style, this building was designed by Donald Southgate and opened in 1937.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Centennial Park was the site of May Day rallies held annually from 1914 until 1920, when the Tennessee General Assembly ratified the 19th...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

An early settler of this area was James Menees, at whose home Mill Creek Baptist Church was formed in 1797.

Nashville-Davidson, TN

This excellent example of a local two-story log farmhouse contributed to the listing of the Warner Park Historic District in the National...

Nashville-Davidson, TN

Created in 1937 from the G. A. Puryear farm.