Third Baptist Church was organized in 1876. In 1877 the membership erected a building on a Jefferson Street site given to the congregation by First Baptist Church. In 1899 the congregation purchased a lot on Monroe Street and in 1904, using brick...
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...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Nashvillian Annie Woodfolk Carter, conducted on 28 July 1980 by Nathaniel A. Crippens as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. In these excerpts, Carter discusses moving to...
Excerpts from an oral history interview with Angelo Anderson and his daughter Angela Anderson Jones, conducted on 21 Oct. 1986 by John Egerton as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Anderson and Jones discuss Anderson's...
A photograph of the Stagecrafters theater group. Formed in 1906, the Stagecrafters were the earliest of Nashville's local theater groups. Their membership was limited to 50 drama devotees. The purpose was to "develop talent among amateurs and to...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a tea given at Acklen Hall, Ward-Belmont College, by members of the Housewives’ League. Pictured left to right, seated “Mrs. W. P. Cooper; standing, Mrs. Arch Trawick, Mrs. J. J....
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about new members in the Girls’ Cotillion Club. The caption reads: “An attractive and popular group of girls elected to membership in the Girls’ Cotillion Club, seen at the home of the new...
A color postcard of the Golf and Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee. The first nine holes were completed by the summer of 1901. Fields were cut by mule-drawn mowers to prepare for the holes. The first clubhouse, as seen on the postcard, was...
A photograph of the Andrew Price Memorial United Methodist Church located at 2846 Lebanon Road in Nashville, Tennessee. The roots of the church started around 1850. At that time a group of Methodists organized the Donelson Methodist Episcopal...
A photograph of Central Church of Christ located at 145 Fifth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1925 with a congregation of only 47 members. Membership today now exceeds 1,200. Early works of the church ranged from general...
A brochure commemorating the beginning of the second decade of the Nashville Community Playhouse. It contains a brief history of theatre in Nashville, starting with mentions of the Stagecrafters group and the Little Theatre of Nashville, moving...