Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashville engineer Wilbur Foster Creighton, Jr., conducted on 13 December 1980 by Susan Cox as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Creighton discusses the...
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 Elizabeth Jacobs, conducted on December 22, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Jacobs discusses her role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. She...
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 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 Neill Brown, conducted on December 14, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Brown discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an interview with Joe Torrence, conducted on December 5, 1994 by Carole Bucy as part of the Metro Consolidation Oral History Interviews. Torrence discusses his role in the consolidation of the city and county governments. He also...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville Civil Rights Movement participant Rev. William Lewis Barnes, conducted on 19 December 2002 by Ed Hamlett as part of the Nashville Public Library's Civil Rights Oral History Project. Barnes...
A photograph of Glendale Baptist Church located at 1020 Glendale Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. This church started as a mission of Belmont Heights Baptist Church in 1948 and was officially chartered as an independent congregation on March 11,...
A photograph of Gospel Tabernacle Church of God in Christ located at 1101 Jackson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the cornerstone the church was built in 1916 as Jackson Street Baptist Church, and remodeled in 1941 by Reverend William...
Photograph of Grace Evangelical Church, currently an Ethiopian Christian church located at 3701 Park Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Formerly the historic Park Avenue Church of Christ, this church building changed hands in 1993, becoming Korean...
A photograph of Green Street Church of Christ located at 146 Green Street in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was founded in 1892, and the present church building was completed in 1930 after the original frame structure burned in 1929. The...
A photograph of Hamilton Tabernacle United Primitive Baptist Church located at 2407 Booker Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally called Hamilton Tabernacle Baptist Church, this structure was built in 1942. The foundation is made of concrete...
Commerce Street, shown here ca. 1970 and looking toward Second Avenue North, highlights the bend at Printer's Alley between Third and Fourth Avenues North. The opening of a newly widened and reconstructed Commerce Street took place in December of...
A photograph of Humphreys Street United Methodist Church located at 424 Humphreys Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1929 As Humphreys Street Methodist Church. The foundation is made of rough cut stone blocks. The walls are...
A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...
A photograph of Inglewood Church of the Nazarene located at 3934 Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee. Historically the name of the road was Gallatin Road, but the location of the church has not changed. According to the cornerstone, the...
A photograph of Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ located at 904 Lawrence Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church building was constructed in approximately 1912 as the Lawrence Avenue Christian Church, and has seen many different congregations...
A photograph of Mt. Zion Baptist Church located at 1112 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the survey this church's congregation was founded in 1866, while the building was constructed in 1905. The foundation is made of rough...