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Built in the antebellum South as the main building of the University of Nashville, it served as a Union hospital during the Civil War. [2] It became the Nashville Children's Museum in 1945. In 1974 the museum moved to a new facility at 800 Fort Negley Boulevard, became the Cumberland Science Museum and is now known as the Adventure Science ...
Carte de visite of a Union soldier, created by Schleier during the Union occupation of Nashville. In 1859, Schleier moved to Nashville to work in the Southern Photographic Temple of Fine Arts, a studio and gallery on Deaderick Street operated by fellow Prussian immigrant Carl Giers (1828–1877).
The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Kyriakoudes ...
Earl's Nashville Museum opens. [9] Population: 3,000 (approximate). [10] 1820 – Christian Church built. [5] 1822 – Nashville City Cemetery established. 1823 – Presbyterian church built. [5] 1825 – Decker & Dyer Reading Room established. [8] 1826 Tennessee General Assembly relocates to Nashville from Murfreesboro. [7] Cumberland College ...
The Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition was an exposition held in Nashville from May 1 – October 31, 1897 in what is now Centennial Park.A year late, it celebrated the 100th anniversary of Tennessee's entry into the union in 1796. [1]
At the same time General Edmund Kirby Smith, Confederate commander in eastern Kentucky, proposed a threat against Nashville to draw Union forces away from the gap. Only Morgan got his wish. [6] A Union division under Brig. Gen. James S. Negley attacked Chattanooga on June 7, 1862.
Interior of the hotel Hotel lobby and chandeliers. Nashville's Union Station is a former railroad terminal designed by Richard Montfort, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N), and built between 1898 and 1900 to serve the passengers of the eight railroads that provided passenger service to Nashville, Tennessee, at the time, but principally the L&N. [1] [2] Built just ...
During the Civil War, Giers photographed both Confederate and Union soldiers. After the Union Army occupied Nashville in early 1862, Giers was given a pass to move about freely in the city, and to travel outside the city. By October 1863, he had moved to a new gallery on Union Street, selling his old gallery to Thomas Farquar Saltsman. [8]