A photograph of St. James Missionary Baptist Church located at 600 Twenty-eighth Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone the church was founded in 1925 under Reverend H.W. Turner and renovated in 1973 under Reverend D.L....
A photograph of the former Second Presbyterian Church located at 3511 Belmont Boulevard in Nashville, Tennessee. The founding of the Second Presbyterian congregation dates back to 1843, but this structure was not erected in this Green Hills...
First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill, was organized in the 1840's when African American members of the First Baptist Church decided to start their own separate church under the leadership of Pastor Nelson Merry. The first meeting house, erected in...
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...
An original will of James Adam “late of the City of Cincinnati and State of Ohio, but now temporarily at Nashville, Tennessee,” dated August 7th, 1885. Illustrates the first page of the document. Adam’s will was presented for probate to the...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the annual Red Cross roll call. The caption reads: “More than 600 women made the census enumerators look like a bunch of pikers as they started the annual Red Cross roll call today. This...
A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the Seventh Avenue Garage. Cited in the 1941 City Directory as “South’s Finest One Stop Service Garage, 600 car capacity, gas, oil, tires and tubes, brake work our specialty, park inside,...
Aladdin Industries building, located at 703-705 Murfreesboro Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The company site was built in 1949 when they moved from Chicago to Nashville. Listed in the 1956 City Directory with Victor S. Johnson, Jr., President; T. A....
A photograph of First Baptist Church East Nashville. This African American church was founded in 1866 by the Reverend Randall B. Vandavall, a slave born on March 23, 1832 at Neely's Bend. In the early years, the church was called Vandavall's...