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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2RD_pearl-high-school_Nashville-TN.html
(Obverse)Named for Joshua F. Pearl, the city's first superintendent of schools, Pearl was established in 1883 as a grammar school for Negroes and was located on old South Summer Street. It became a high school in 1897 when grades 9 thru 11 were tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2QM_arna-wendell-bontemps_Nashville-TN.html
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,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FJ_anne-dallas-dudley_Nashville-TN.html
1876-1955Anne 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 Eq…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FH_nashville-academy-of-medicine_Nashville-TN.html
The Nashville Medical Society, the first medical association in Tennessee, was founded March 5, 1821, by 7 physicians in the log courthouse on the Public Square. Pres. was Dr. Felix Robertson, first white child born in Nashville. Chartered Sept. 4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FG_james-weldon-johnson-home_Nashville-TN.html
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 h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FF_dr-harold-dadford-west-sr_Nashville-TN.html
1904-1974 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 f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FE_germantown-historic-district_Nashville-TN.html
European immigrants esablished Germantown, the first suburb in North Nashville, in the 1850s. Large bick townhouses stood next to modest workers' cottages, illustrating the area's economic and social diversity. World War I and changes in public at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FD_assumption-church-cardinal-stritch_Nashville-TN.html
(Assumption Church side):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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FC_watkins-park_Nashville-TN.html
Land once known as Watkins Grove was given to the city in 1870 by brick maker and contractor Samuel Watkins. It served as a site for political gatherings, school commencements and concerts. This became Nashville's first public park in 1901. Park B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2FB_richardson-house_Nashville-TN.html
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 …