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Nashville, Tennessee: Area: 50.4 acres (20.4 ha) ... Added to NRHP: November 1, 1990: Dozier Farm, also known as Cliffview Farm, is a historic mansion in Nashville ...
By 1865, the farm was inherited by Fannie Davis Harding's nephew, Edward Dickson Hicks II. [4] Hicks imported Devon cattle from England, and he renamed the farm Devon Farm. [ 4 ] It was later inherited by Edward Dickson Hicks III, who lived there with his wife Harriet Cockrill, the granddaughter of Mark R. Cockrill . [ 4 ]
Belle Meade Farm gained a national reputation in the latter half of the 19th century for breeding thoroughbred horse racing stock, notably a celebrated stallion, Iroquois. In the Civil War, when the Union Army took control of Nashville, the mansion was pillaged and looted by soldiers who spent weeks quartered there; the owner was imprisoned. In ...
Nashville: 47: Dozier Farm: November 1, 1990 8451 River Rd. Pike ... 12 miles (19 km) east of Nashville on U.S. Route 70N Hermitage: 87: Hillsboro-West End Historic ...
Cheekwood is a 55-acre (22 ha) historic estate on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee that houses the Cheekwood Estate & Gardens.Formerly the residence of Nashville's Cheek family, the 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) Georgian-style mansion was opened as a botanical garden and art museum in 1960.
In 1961, the commissioner and his department moved out of the State's downtown Nashville offices and into a new facility south of the city called the Elligton Agricultural Center. The facility is a working farm and named for Buford Ellington, the 40th Governor of Tennessee who also served as Commissioner of Agriculture in the late 1950s. The ...
In 1943, it became the home for Acme Feed and Hatchery, known as Acme Farm Supply in 1965. [2] The farm supply store, which sold "straw, feed, wire, tools" and more products needed on a farm, was owned by Currey L. Turner, a businessman from Nashville. [1] [2] His pet calf, Beautena, appeared during commercials at the Grand Ole Opry. [2]