A photograph of Saint Ann's Catholic Church located at 5101 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The parish was founded in 1917 as Saint Peter's Catholic Mission. In these early days the congregation met once a month for mass in an already...
A photograph of Strother's Meeting Center located on the southeast section of the Scarritt-Bennett Center campus. This log cabin church was the meeting place for the first Methodist conference in Middle Tennessee. That first conference took place...
A photograph of Tulip Street United Methodist Church located at 522 Russell Street in the Edgefield Historic District in Nashville, Tennessee. The church sits at the corner of South Fifth Street, which was originally named Tulip Street in the...
A postcard of Court Square in Nashville, Tennessee, looking west between 1901 and 1907. Court Square, also referred to as Court House Square or Public Square, was located right in the center of the city. The square, with the county courthouse,...
A postcard of the Davidson County Court House and Public Square showing the wagon market. Also referred to as Court House Square, this area was located right in the center of the city. The square with the county courthouse, city hall and market...
A postcard of Public Square in Nashville, Tennessee, looking west circa 1908. Public Square, also referred to as Court House Square or Court Square, was located right in the center of the city. The square, with the county courthouse, city hall and...
A photograph of Vasso and Hermes Pan, sister and brother who were visiting Nashville. An article titled "Noted Hollywood Dance Director Visits Nashville," ran in the 10 February 1939 edition of the Nashville Banner newspaper. "Hermes Pan, native...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Marguerite Martin, conducted on 6 October 2007 by her daughter Sarah McConnell at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
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...
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 postcard of President Andrew Jackson's Tomb. The verso reads: "President Andrew Jackson's Tomb at the Hermitage, situated 12 miles from Nashville, has been called the Mt. Vernon of the South. Through the Ladies' Hermitage Association the handsome...
A photograph of the old Felix Compton house, located at the northeast corner of Hillsboro Road and Harding Place in Nashville, Tennessee, 5050 Hillsboro Road (Hillsboro Pike), when it was the A.M Burton family residence, circa 1973. This...
A photograph of "a view of the tavern stables, built more than a hundred years ago…Originally a tavern on the stage line running East and West from Nashville through Charlotte. Part of the stable building on the East side was the original stable....
A photograph of the Tennessee Press Association at the meeting held at Jackson, Tennessee in 1893. A few of the attendees are identified in a 1970 typescript letter by Donald Miller, a retired priest of the Episcopal Church who is pictured in this...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), of “The Crest,” historic home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, circa June 22nd, 1940. The caption reads: “Embodying all the charm and culture of the Old South, the stately antebellum home of...
The historic Belle Meade Plantation was founded by John Harding, of Goochland County, Virginia in 1807. Harding purchased 250 acres of farm land near Richland Creek and the Natchez Trace. He was very interested in horses and soon boarded horses...
Travellers Rest gained its name from the fact of the many guests it has entertained. John Overton, afterward Justice of the Supreme Court, came from Virginia in 1793 and built a two-room log house on the site of the present building. He was one of...
A photograph of a convertible car with teenagers waving American flags and holding a Banner newspaper high with the announcement "War Ends" in celebration of the end of WW II in the Pacific on 2 September 1945, known as VJ or VP Day. A formal...
In 1970, in response to President Nixon’s widening of the Vietnam War into Cambodia, students throughout the nation protested with anti-war demonstrations. Nixon ordered U. S. troops into Cambodia on April 30th, 1970, and protests against the...