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Major Eugene Castner Lewis was the director of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition and it was at his suggestion that a reproduction of the Parthenon be built in Nashville to serve as the centerpiece of Tennessee's Centennial Celebration. Lewis also served as the chief civil engineer for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
Nashville fell to the Union Army in 1862 and was occupied afterward until the end of the war. The army took over the unfinished hotel, using it as a barracks, prison, and hospital. [1] [2] In September 1863, several Confederate prisoners were killed when a staircase collapsed. [3]
The civil rights movement in Tennessee: A narrative history (U. of Tennessee Press, 2005) online. Lovett, Bobby L. The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee: 1780-1930 (University of Arkansas Press, 1999) online. Patterson, C. Perry. The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865; a study in southern politics (1922) online; PHILLIPS, PAUL DAVID.
When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and ...
The Hermitage is a National Historic Landmark and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville in the neighborhood of Hermitage. The 1,000-acre (400 ha)+ site was owned by President Andrew Jackson , the seventh president of the United States , from 1804 until his death there in 1845.
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Woolworth in downtown Nashville is a historical site of national importance where the struggle for civil rights was fought nonviolently with strength and dignity. It achieved the desegregation of ...
Travellers Rest, also known as Golgotha, [2] is a former plantation and historic plantation house, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The first owner of the site was John Overton in 1796, who built the first family home in 1799. [2] For many years this plantation was worked and maintained by enslaved Black people. [3] [4]