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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 were reg…
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The Nashville Gas Light Co., founded Mar. 1850, with General Washington Barrow, President, built first gas works in Tennessee for manufacturing gas from coal. First street lamp was lighted Feb. 13, 1851 at Second Ave. North and Public Square. Natu…
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Raged around this point April 2, 1781between Cherokee Indians and settlers.Loosed by Mrs. James Robertson, dogsfrom the Fort attacked the Indiansallowing settlers to escape to the Fort.Many were killed includingCaptian James Leiper.
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The Seeing Eye, the world-famous dog guide training school, was incorporated in Nashville January 29, 1929, with headquarters in the Fourth and First National Bank Building at 315 Union St. Morris Frank, a 20-year-old blind man from Nashville, and…
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Lardner Clark came from Philadelphia in the early 1780's with ten horses packed with piece goods, needles and pins. He established Nashville's first drygoods store by 1786, on a site 30 yards east. The building, which served as store, tavern and d…
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In appreciation ofthe services ofColonel John DonelsonBorn in Delaware, 1718.Died in Kentucky 1786.Distinguished in early life in Virginia as a civil, industrial and military leader.Member of the House of Burgesses, iron manufacturer, Lieutenant C…
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French Canadian fur trader and explorerOfficer of the American RevolutionLieutenant Governor of the Illinois TerritoryHonored as Nashville's "First Citizen"Sculptor: Alan LequirePlaque donated in memory of: Dr. Truman Weldon Demunbrun, President o…
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On Monday, April 24, 1780, two pioneers, James Robertson and John Donelson, shook hands upon the completion of a reunion at the site on which you now stand.Each man, one by land, the other by water, played out in a two-fold plan for a new settleme…
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In recognition ofColonel Richard HendersonBorn in Virginia 1735Died in North Carolina 1785—————Founder and Promoter of the noted "Transylvania Land Company"Whose purchase from the Cherokee Indians covered the territor…
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Named in memory of General Nash of North Carolina, who fell at Germantown, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1777, in the War of the Revolution.
Erected on the bluff near this location by the pioneers of the Cumberland settlement in the year 1780, as a …