Historic Nashville, Inc.

Walking In Their Footsteps: Downtown Nashville Women's History Walking Tour
2019-06-01 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | Tennessee Supreme Court, 401 7th Avenue North, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join Historic Nashville, Inc. for a very special guided walking tour of women’s history in downtown Nashville. Back by popular demand, this tour closes out Historic Nashville’s celebration of Preservation Month. There are two tour times, 9:00am-10:30am or 9:30am-11:00am.
“From the earliest days of the settlement that would become Nashville to the present, women have been involved in every aspect of Nashville’s growth and development including education, the arts, business, politics and music as well as advocating for our city’s beautification and preservation of our historic resources,” said Jenn Harrman, president of Historic Nashville, Inc. “Several of our board members who are historians have researched and developed this tour, which will include stops along the route to see the places and hear the stories of the women who have led and shaped our city from its beginning to the present day.”
Among the many stories highlighted on the tour are:

One of the founders of Nashville who has a street named in her honor
The slave who lived near the Courthouse and purchased freedom for herself and her son
An African American suffragist who addressed the Tennessee General Assembly in 1920
The sculptor who created the Victory statue at War Memorial Auditorium
The woman who started the first Sunday School for poor children in the city
The manager of the Ryman Auditorium who hosted entertainers and speakers from around the world and who brought the Grand Ole Opry to the Mother Church
The Civil Rights leader whose challenge to the mayor made Nashville the first Southern city to desegregate lunch counters in 1961

Tours are approximately 90 minutes and require walking a little over 1.5 miles downtown.
The tour starts at the Tennessee Supreme Courth Building at the corner of Charlotte and 7th Avenue North and concludes approximately 1/4 mile from the tour start at the Hermitage Hotel at 231 6th Avenue North, which has public restroooms available.
Tours will be held rain or shine. All proceeds will support the programs of Historic Nashville, Inc. Due to limited space, ticket sales are final and cancellations will be considered an in-kind donation to Historic Nashville, Inc.

Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Marathon Motor Works
2019-04-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Barry Walker Marathon Motor Works, 1305 Clinton Street, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a tour of Marathon Motor Works on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 10:00 am led by Owner Barry Walker

** Ticket reservations open Monday March 11, 2019 at 6:00 PM**

HOW IT BEGAN
The year was 1884 when the Southern Engine and Boiler Works company was founded in Jackson, Tennessee. As a manufacturer of gasoline engines and industrial boilers, the company was one of the first of its kind in a growing industry. By 1904, this locally owned and operated organization had grown into the largest plant of its kind in the United States. While there were numerous automobile companies buying components and assembling vehicles in their factories, only a few were actually manufacturing the entire vehicle using their own design and components they’d built onsite. At Southern Engine and Boiler Works, a young engineer William Henry Collier wanted to be among those creating the entire vehicle and convinced the directors of the company to allow him to build a car he designed.
THE FIRST CARS
Collier’s enthusiasm and ingenuity paid off, and in 1907, the company announced their first vehicle with a gasoline engine. It was so successful that excited investors gave $50,000 to be a part of the action.
By 1909, the company released two different models, the A9 and the B9. Each vehicle featured a 35 horsepower, 4-cylinder engine. The A9 was a five-seater touring car, while the B9 was a rumble seat roadster. For just $1,500, people could purchase either, with a top being an optional extra. As the cars gained popularity, the company produced more and more starting with just 20 cars in 1907, increasing to 400 in just two short years.
By 1910, Southern Engine and Boiler Works had been renamed Marathon (as a result of a name dispute with another company in the area) and relocated to a larger facility in Nashville. New models were added to the company’s offering and soon buyers and auto dealers from around the world were coveting their vehicles. The enthusiasm for Marathon Motors continued to grow, causing dealers to flock to Nashville and having a positive impact on the city’s economy.
After being abandoned and suffering from years of neglect, the Marathon Motors Factory was discovered by Barry Lyle Walker, a real estate visionary who recognized the possibilities of the once booming facility. His vision was to develop a thriving creative community that would serve as a cultural, artistic and performing arts venue. After purchasing the property, he began renovation. A challenging aspect to the refurbishing was the fact that each of the buildings on the property had been built in different time periods, and thus were of different architectural styles. The new spaces that evolved are not only unique, they capture the essence, personality and creativity that the founders of Marathon possessed. Walker even scoured the world to find one of the original vehicles, finally obtaining one in 1990.

**We will meet in the showroom. Parking lot behind the showroom on 14th will have a designated free parking area for HNI members only.

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Ticket reservations open Monday March 11, 2019 at 6:00 pm

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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of African American Culture
2019-03-16 11:00 - 12:30 | The Nashville Visitors Center, 501 Broadway, Nashville, TN, 37203
Join us for a tour of African American Culture on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 11:00 am led by Chakita Patterson.

** Ticket reservations open Monday February 18, 2018 at 6:00 PM**

Surrounded in the bliss of country music, it is a little-known fact that Nashville was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. However, students at the city’s predominantly black universities led the way in nonviolent protests in the 1950s and 60s. Journey with us to attractions and local hideaways around the city that is significant to African American history and culture on this 1.5-mile outdoor walking tour.

**Meeting Point: This tour meets by the front door of “The Nashville Visitors Center.”
The Nashville Visitor Center is inside the glass tower of the Bridgestone Arena. We’ll meet outside the front door at 501 Broadway.

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Ticket reservations open Monday February 18, 2018 at 6:00 pm

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Old House Fair
2019-03-02 09:00 - 15:00
Save the date for the 2019 Old House Fair on Saturday, March 2, 2019, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Sevier Park Community Center. Check back in February 2019 for additional information. (The Fair is held on the first Saturday of March on odd years.)
Sponsorship opportunities now available.
Parking Information
Would you like to volunteer for the Fair? Visit Hands On Nashville for this and many other volunteer opportunities.
The Metropolitan Historical Commission Foundation and partners will host the 2019 Old House Fair on Saturday, March 2, 2019, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Sevier Park Community Center, 3021 Lealand Avenue. The Old House Fair is a FREE day-long festival showcasing new ideas, practical advice, innovative materials, and quality services for homeowners to learn more about sustainable and historic products and services, and gain tips for planning and executing your project.
Exhibitors included companies, retailers, and artists experienced in working with homes of many ages and styles, from Antebellum to Mid-century Modern.
Sponsorship opportunities available. If you are interested in being a sponsor, please contact Robin Zeigler at robin.zeigler@nashville.gov or 615-862-7970 ext.79776.

Presentations
Please check back for a complete list of 2019 sessions that will include topics such as energy efficiency and restoring a 1950s era ranch.
Tentative Sessions (times to be announced.)
Restoring Your Ranch House
Learn how a local preservationist undertook an award-winning restoration of a historic 1954 Ranch House in Madison. This session will review lessons learned and suggestions on repairing and restoring original character defining features such as wood frame windows, asbestos shingle siding, interior moldings, and exterior trim. This session will include a review of all the cool original features of a Ranch House, including steel kitchens, laminate countertops, electric wall heaters, and tile bathrooms.

Holistic Approach to Home Renovation
Renovating an old home? How to take a holistic approach and achieve compounding beneftis. Whether you are renovating or updating your home, taking a holistic approach to the design and construction can create many benefits beyond energy efficiency. E3 Innovate, Nashville’s experts in green renovation, shares the top 3 strategies for creating a high performance home. Using integrated design techniques and the application of the latest technologies, this holistic approach helps homeowners achieve healthy indoor quality, personalized comfort, and long-lasting durability.

Historic Nashville Inc’s Economic Incentive
Preservation Easements are the strongest tool for preserving your historic building or home. During this workshop, representatives from Historic Nashville, Inc. will discuss their preservation easements program including what is a preservation easement what are the benefits of donating an easement, and how a preservation easement can ensure the preservation of your historic home. Historic Nashville, Inc. established the state’s first preservation easements program in 1982 and currently owns 18 easements within Metro Nashville-Davidson County including the Hermitage Hotel and the Southern Turf.

HNI Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Historic Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville
2019-02-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Nashville Speedway, 625 Smith Ave, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a Behind-the-Scenes tour of the Historic Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 10:00 am led by Donnie Redd, Historian of the track.

** Ticket reservations open Monday January 21, 2018 at 6:00 PM**

The Fairgrounds Nashville originally opened in 1891 as a horse racing track named Cumberland Park. The park became the home of the Tennessee State Fair in 1906 and was purchased by the Davidson County government (later Metro) in 1910.
The track first featured “horseless carriages” and motorcycles on June 11, 1904, on a 1 1/8 (1.125) mile dirt oval. Races were canceled after a motorcycle ran into the back of a car that was lining up. Harness (horse) racing events were also held at the track. In September 1904 another series of races was organized. Most of the entrants came directly to Nashville from the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Racing pioneer Barney Oldfield was one of the entrants. People marveled at cars driving over 60 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour). The track began holding annual events in September 1915 to coincide with the state fair. Many of the same drivers from the Indianapolis 500 brought their cars down to Nashville.
In 1958 car racers decided to build a paved racetrack. The racers ended opposition from horse racers by building a horse track. The racers got a 10-year lease from the state fair board in order to build a paved 1/2 mile track which shared the front stretch with a 1/4 mile track. On July 19, 1958, the first race was held at the new speedway. Races were held only on the 1/4 mile track (except for special events).
The track held at least one NASCAR Cup race each year from 1958 to 1984. A capacity crowd of 13,998 watched Joe Weatherly win the first NASCAR race on August 10, 1958. Geoff Bodine beat Darrell Waltrip for his second career win in the last Winston Cup race (1984) at the track. NASCAR left the track because the grandstands are too small, and because of a dispute over who would manage the track took place prior to the start of the 1985 season. Of the 42 Cup races, Richard Petty has nine wins, with Darrell Waltrip right behind with eight wins. Waltrip won 5 of 6 races between 1981 and 1984. Waltrip’s victory in the 1988 Busch Series event gives him the career best nine wins total at the track.
The speedway is currently an 18 degree banked paved oval. The track is 0.596-mile (0.959 km) long. Inside the larger oval is a quarter-mile paved oval. A lot of hard work and support from many has been a part to save the future of the speedway when announced in 2010 the final season. A crowd of over 3,000 people, the largest ever to attend a Metro Nashville council meeting was a determining factor for the track to be saved. The Formosa family last year was awarded a five-year contract for the speedway, the longest lease awarded dating back to the 2004 season. Speedway Motorsports Inc. is presently in negotiation to team with Formosa Productions to bring back the glory days of NASCAR premier national racing events. The addition of major NASCAR events mixed with local racing would contribute to the success of property campus which will include a new Expo Center and a new stadium for use as a soccer complex.

**Enter the Speedway at the back entrance off Wedgewood onto Raines Ave gate there is a ticket booth sitting in the middle of the road.
**We will park behind the track next to the buildings. There will be someone directing us where to park.

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Ticket reservations open Monday January 21, 2018 at 6:00 pm

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Annual Membership Meeting & 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019-01-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Woolworth on 5th, 221 5th Ave N, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join Historic Nashville, Inc. at Woolworth on 5th for our annual membership meeting and a celebration of our 50th anniversary.
Speakers include HNI Board President Jenn Harrman, Ex-Officio Board Member Bob Tuke, Restauranteur Tom Morales, and Actor Barry Scott.
Light hors d’oeuvres will be served alongside a cash bar.
The meeting is free to all current members with advanced registration. Non-member fee $20 in advance or at the door. All non-member cancellations are non-refundable and will be considered an in kind donation.
Valet parking is available for $6.00 or self-parking is available nearby at the 505 Building garage.
About Woolworth on 5th
The building at 221 5th Avenue North was built in the 1890s, and after cycling through several businesses, opened as a Woolworth “five and dime” store in 1913. The building is a registered historic site as part of the Fifth Avenue Historic District in Nashville. One of the original five and dimes, Woolworth attracted shoppers looking for quality and value.
Since the Jim Crow laws of the 1890s prohibited African Americans from eating at these public lunch counters, generations of African Americans grew up without being able to enjoy this popular American ritual. That was about to change, as African American students attending college in Nashville sought to challenge this decades-old practice of segregation at lunch counters.
The new Woolworth on 5th reprises the original Woolworth as a restaurant and live music venue that honors its history and invites everyone to sit at the welcome table. Morales and his team began work on the historic space in early 2017, renovating and restoring the building to its original beauty. Through a massive restoration effort, much of the original architecture was preserved, including the upper level mezzanine, gilded handrails and wall accents, and hand-laid tile. Parts of the 18,000-square-foot space that could not be preserved were recreated to echo the style of the past: flowing staircases, the rebuilt lunch counter, wood-paneled walls, turquoise colors and an art deco-inspired vibe. The space remains true to its past, while creating new traditions for the future.
**Photo by Nathan Zucker
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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Columbia Studio A
2019-01-05 10:00 - 12:00 | Columbia Studio A, 34 Music Square East, Nashville, TN, 37203, United States
Join us for a Behind-the-Scenes tour of Columbia Studio A the Historic site of Decca Records & The Quonset Hut on Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 10:00 am.

** Ticket reservations open Monday December 17, 2018 at 6:00 PM**
The tour will be led by recording engineer Lou Bradley. Lou has been honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Recording Engineer Society and was honored with induction into the Musician’s Hall of Fame last year.
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 others. Columbia Records purchased the studios in 1962. The studio established its reputation in the music industry with hits by stars including Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Roger Miller, George Jones, and Tammy Wynette.
**Parking is available behind the building in the parking spaces labeled Belmont.
**The tour will meet behind the building.
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Ticket reservations open Monday December 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of The New Tennessee State Museum
2018-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37208, United States
Come experience a tour of the brand new Tennessee State Museum on December 1, 2018 at 10 AM.
** Ticket reservations open Monday November 12, 2018 at 6:00 PM**
The tour will be led by the museum’s very own Curator of History, Rob Dehart. While the Tennessee State Museum has been receiving visitors in Nashville for decades, you will get a chance to visit the museum’s brand new facility, which opened on October 4, 2018 at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Boulevard. Discover a wide range of artifacts and topics which stretch from the geological formation of Tennessee to the present day, all in a new state of the art museum.
The mission of the Tennessee State Museum is to procure, preserve, exhibit, and interpret objects which relate to the social, political, economic, and cultural history of Tennessee and Tennesseans, and to provide exhibitions and programs for the educational and cultural enrichment of the citizens of the state.
**Parking is available at various locations around the museum.
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Ticket reservations open Monday November 12, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Ryman Auditorium
2018-11-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Ryman Auditorium, 116 5th Ave N, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join us for a Behind-the-Scenes tour of the Ryman Auditorium on Saturday November 17, 2018 at 10:00 am.
**Ticket reservations open Monday September 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm**
When you walk through the doors of the historic Ryman Auditorium, one thing becomes clear right away: this isn’t just another nightly music venue, and it’s so much more than a daytime tourist stop. This place is hallowed ground. This is the exact spot where bluegrass was born—where Johnny Cash met June Carter, where souls were saved and a slice of history was nearly lost. It was right here that country music found an audience beyond its own back porch, and countless careers took off as deals were signed on napkins and paper scraps backstage. This is a building where anything is possible: a soul can find redemption, a crumbling building can find salvation, and an unknown kid with a guitar can find his or her name in lights.
Our story starts with an 1885 tent revival led by fiery evangelist Sam Jones and attended by 5,000 people, including steamboat captain and prominent Nashville businessman Thomas G. Ryman. The captain was so unexpectedly moved by the experience that he dedicated his life and fortune to building and constructing the Union Gospel Tabernacle, a place where all people could gather and worship. When Ryman died, its name was changed to honor his legacy.
When fearless show promoter Lula C. Naff leased the building and took the reins in the 1920s, the Ryman became the anchor of Nashville’s cultural offerings. The venue was known as the Carnegie of the South, hosting sought-after traveling acts including John Philip Sousa, Roy Rogers, Harry Houdini, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Mae West, and even former President Theodore Roosevelt.
When the Grand Ole Opry put down roots here in 1943, the world would never be the same as the live radio and TV show brought the likes of Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Minnie Pearl, Patsy Cline, and Roy Acuff to the stage and into living rooms around the country for thirty one years.
**We will meet in front of the Ryman. Parking is available at the Nashville Public Library or street parking nearby.
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Ticket reservations open Monday September 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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2018 Nashville Nine Announcement
2018-10-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Bobby’s Idle Hour, 1028 16th Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37212, United States
Historic Nashville will announce the 2018 Nashville Nine list of our city’s historic properties endangered by demolition, neglect or development. Every year, the Nashville Nine list is compiled through a public nomination process revealing historic buildings and places that matter to the people of our city.
We invite you and your guests to attend the public announcement of this year’s list at Bobby’s Idle Hour, 1028 16th Ave.

Nashville: Covered
2018-10-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Downtown Presbyterian Church, 154 5th Ave. N., Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join us for Nashville: Covered
FREE October Art Crawl Exhibit featuring Nashville’s historic places
Downtown Presbyterian Church, 154 5th Ave. N.
Celebrate Nashville’s landmarks through the music and art they inspire at Nashville: Covered, a special one-night-only exhibit of classic and contemporary album covers.
FREE ART EXHIBIT
From Bob Dylan’s classic 1969 album Nashville Skyline to Jason Isbell’s upcoming album Live from the Ryman, Nashville has inspired artists for several generations. The Nashville: Covered exhibit connects our community’s historic places with Nashville’s rich music history through a variety of genres, musicians and time.
The albums on display will be for sale during the event, with all proceeds benefiting the continuing restoration of the Downtown Presbyterian Church and HNI’s preservation and advocacy programs.
FREE TOURS
Free tours of the church will be offered throughout the evening by Jim Hoobler, Senior Curator of Art & Architecture at the Tennessee State Museum and Staff Historian with the Downtown Presbyterian Church, to highlight the church’s unique Egyptian Revival architecture.
HNI is partnering with the historic Downtown Presbyterian Church and longtime Nashville record store The Great Escape to present this unique event.

Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of James Geddes Engine Co. No. 6
2018-10-06 10:00 - 12:00 | James Geddes Engine Co. No. 6, 2nd Ave S, Nashville, TN, 37210, United States
Join us for a Behind-the-Scenes tour of James Geddes Engine Company No. 6 on Saturday October 6, 2018 at 10:00 am, led by owner Larry Roberts.
**Ticket reservations open Monday September 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm**
The James Geddes Engine Company No. 6 building was constructed in 1886. The former firehouse is in a Victorian style. At the time of construction, the fire department used horse-drawn vehicles thus explaining the fairly narrow front garage door. The circular tower to the right of the building had the fireman pole which is still present. the fire station was named for James Geddes, a surveyor of the railroad line between Louisville and Nashville in the 1850s. After sitting vacant for a number of years the building has now been converted to attorneys’ offices.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978
Parking is available behind the building or street parking nearby.
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Ticket reservations open Monday September 24, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of WTVF News Channel 5
2018-09-29 09:45 - 11:45 | WTVF News Channel 5, 474 James Robertson Pkwy, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the WTVF News Channel 5 on Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 9:45 am, led by Storm 5 Weather Meteorologist Heather Mathis.
WTVF is a is a CBS-affiliated television station in Nashville, Tennessee. WTVF first signed on the air as WLAC-TV on August 6, 1954. WLAC-TV was owned alongside WLAC radio (1510 AM) and later WLAC-FM (105.9 FM, now WNRQ). With WLAC-TV, Nashville became one of the smallest cities in the United States to have three fully separate network-affiliated commercial television stations. WLAC-TV was sold in 1975, and new owners changed the station’s call sign to the current WTVF on December 1 (the callsign change was brought on due to an FCC rule in place at the time forbidding TV and radio stations in the same city but with different owners from sharing the same call letters). WTVF is currently owned by Scripps Media Inc.
As WLAC-TV, the station helped launch the career of a young African-American reporter and local Nashvillian named Oprah Winfrey by making her a regular news anchor in the early 1970s. The station’s Studio A, which was built in 1967 near the Tennessee State Capitol building, was also the home of the hit show Hee Haw for most of its 1968 to 1993 run. Behind Winfrey, the station’s most notable anchor is Greek-American Chris Clark (real name Christopher Botsaris), who served as the station’s main anchor for 41 years from 1966 to 2007, longer than anyone in Nashville television history. In June 2006, Clark reduced his daily anchoring schedule to only the weeknight 6 p.m. newscast and announced his retirement at the end of his contract in 2007.
On April 16, 1998, WTVF was knocked off the air due to an F3 tornado striking downtown Nashville. This occurred while meteorologists Ron Howes and Joe Case were broadcasting live, showing the actual tornado from the station’s SkyCam as it entered downtown Nashville. Before the interruption of the signal, which was caused by winds in excess of {{convert|100|mph|km/h|0}, the station’s weather camera on top of AT&T Building (then BellSouth Building) captured the tornado as it moved into downtown Nashville during the station’s broadcast of wall-to-wall tornado warning coverage that afternoon. The station returned to the air shortly after that.
***IMPORTANT INFO:
You must arrive by 9:45 AM. The tour will tour begin at 10:00 am.
Park in the lot behind the station on 4th Ave N just before Harrison St.
We will meet in the parking lot.
We encourage members to arrive early, once the tour begins you will be unable to join later.
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Historic Nashville Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Newsom's Mill
2018-09-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Newsom’s Mill, 8729 Newsom Station Road, Nashville, TN, 37221, United States
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of Newsom’s Mill led by park ranger Jacob Hardin on Saturday, September 15, 2018 starting at 10:00 am.
The original mill, which was one of the first in our country to have its mill works inside a housed structure, was built by William B. Newsom in the late 1700s. The original mill was destroyed by flood in 1808 and was rebuilt up stream from the original location. William and his family came to America from England after “Conflict with the Church of England” and settled briefly in Virginia. At the time, America was encouraging immigrants and William Newsom was granted 550 acres in the western territories as a reward for bringing eleven family members to America. William’s son, Joseph M. Newsom, eventually assumed ownership of the mill and constructed the current turbine-powered grist mill in 1862 of hand-dressed limestone cut from Newsom’s Quarry, a mile south.
***Tour will meet in the parking lot.
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Walking In Their Footsteps: Downtown Nashville Women's History Walking Tour
2018-08-26 13:00 - 14:30 | Tennessee Supreme Court, 401 7th Avenue North, Nashville, TN, 37219, United States
Join Historic Nashville, Inc. for a very special guided walking tour of women’s history in downtown Nashville. The tours start at 1:00pm or 1:30pm and last approximately 90 minutes. We will meet at the Tennessee Supreme Court Building at the corner of Charlotte and 7th Avenue North and concludes approximately 1/4 mile from the tour start at the Hermitage Hotel at 231 6th Avenue North, which has public restrooms available. This one-time only tour is in celebration of Historic Nashville, Inc.’s 50th anniversary and Women’s Equality Day–commemorating the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote.
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