An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nell Barnes, conducted on 7 August 1982 by Ophelia Paine as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Barnes discusses attending Hume-Fogg High school but having to quit school...
A stock certificate of the antebellum period issued to William Harrison, Sr. certifying capital stock in the Franklin and Columbia Turnpike Company, as witnessed on Dec. 2, 1850. Historically, the turnpikes started with local ownership in the form...
A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...
An excerpt from an interview with former Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton, conducted on May 30, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Fulton discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county...
An excerpt from an interview with Ferris Deep, conducted on December 16, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Deep discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Clay Bailey, conducted on March 1, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Bailey discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with John Seigenthaler, conducted on June 1, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Seigenthaler discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He...
An excerpt from an interview with David Scobey, conducted on December 4, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Scobey discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Victor Johnson, conducted on January 19, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Johnson discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with George Cate, conducted on January 18, 1995 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Cate discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
A photograph of Mayor Ben West giving an insurance report to WLAC-TV News station on May 23, 1961. The other officials pictured with Mayor West are unidentified. b & w; 3 x 4 in.
A photograph of former Nashville Mayor Ben West and former Metro Mayor Beverly Briley in the Bar Assembly Room in May 1958. At the time the photo was taken, West was Mayor of the City of Nashville and Briley was Davidson County Judge. b & w; 3 x...
A photograph of the Charter Commission at work, circa 1962. Members of the commission appointed by Nashville Mayor Ben West were Carmack Cochran, R. N. Chenault, Alexander Looby, Rebecca Thomas, and Joe Torrence. Members of the commission...
A photograph of Charter Commission members in conversation, circa 1962. Pictured here, from left to right, are G. S. Meadors, R. N. Chenault, Charlie Warfield, and Cecil Branstetter. Meadors was a member of the first Charter Commission and...
An anti-Metro chart titled "The Tax Hike", circa 1962. The chart describes the supposed tax increases that would result from the consolidation of the city and county governments. There was a substantial protest movement against consolidation at...
A photograph of Mayor Beverly Briley's inauguration that took place on April 1, 1963. Briley served as the first mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. His inauguration took place on the same day that the...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Mary Diane Maynard Ross, conducted on 2 Oct. 2006 by Linda Barnickel as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Ross discusses the difficulty of leaving behind her young...
A letter from Dutch immigrant Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...