A photograph of Hall Memorial Missionary Baptist Church historically located at 5990 Mt. View Road in Antioch, Tennessee. Although most recently recorded as having a 6005 Mt. View Road address, this church is no longer listed in the Nashville City...
A photograph of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville's second-oldest Episcopal church building. This church is located at 615 Sixth Avenue South. The congregation was founded in 1852 as a free church, open to all people. Holy Trinity evolved...
A photograph of Nashville First Church of the Nazarene located in East Nashville at 510 Woodland Street in Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1887 as the Woodland Street Presbyterian Church. The edifice was severely damaged in the...
A photograph of New Bethel Baptist Church located at 1080 Old Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The congregation organized in 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, six miles North of Nashville on White's Creek Pike. The...
A photograph of South Harpeth Church of Christ located at 8727 Old Harding Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Said to be the oldest Church of Christ in Davidson County, the South Harpeth congregation first organized in 1812. The original building was...
A photograph of West End Synagogue located at 3810 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Constructed in 1950, this synagogue is home to Nashville's second oldest Jewish congregation which was established in 1874 by 20 Jewish families. The...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Jim Alcott, conducted on 3 October 2007 by his friend and business partner Rebecca Whitney at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the...
A postcard of the Sam Davis Home, located in Smyrna, Tennessee. This two-story home is the site where Sam Davis (1842-1863), "the Boy Hero of the Confederacy" grew up, he being the oldest son of Charles Lewis and Jane Simmons Davis. The home was...
A photograph of the Jewish Temple, 5015 Harding Pike, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1972. The Temple is the oldest and largest Jewish house of worship in Nashville. Congregation Ohabai Sholom was established in 1851 and was known as the Vine Street...
A Real Photo postcard view of the St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. This postcard shows the exterior architecture and a montage scene of fashionable individuals, a horse-drawn buggy, and...
A postcard of St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original campus location was atop a hill at Eighth Avenue and Clay Street...
A circa 1907 postcard view of the corridor of the Conservatory of Music, St. Cecilia Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Nashville, Tennessee. Established in 1860 by the Dominican Sisters, the address for the original...
A page from a mounted and bound volume of twenty-five pen-and-ink wash drawings, and two pen-and-ink maps of Nashville created by William A. Eichbaum during the 1850s. Eichbaum was a Nashville bookseller and resident for fifty years. This drawing...
A photograph of the starting five on the 1969 18th District Champs Basketball Team from Hume-Fogg High School. From left to right: Gail Gillespie, Antonion Williams, Dale Stacey, George Carothers, Raymond Petway. In 1964, Hume-Fogg was the first...
Photograph of Governor Frank Clement and his oldest son Robert en route from the Tennessee State Capitol to a platform in front of the War Memorial Auditorium where he was administered the oath of office, becoming the first four-year-term Governor...
An undated photograph the Old Stone Bridge over Mansker's Creek in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. This historic bridge is one of Tennessee's oldest bridges made of stone with masonry arch construction. This dual arch bridge was built circa 1837-1849...
A photograph of the Washington Manufacturing Company building at 200 and 210 Second Avenue North, after it was gutted by fire on October 12, 1985. The building occupied two addresses and may at one time have been two separate buildings. At the time...
A color postcard of Lower Broad Street (now Broadway), near the Ryman Auditorium, where country music started in Nashville and country music stars were often seen prior to performances. The street has some of the oldest buildings in town and is a...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville, Tenn., veteran James Carlew, conducted on 25 March 2004 by Larry Patterson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Carlew, who served in the Navy during World...
Jonathan Jennings was killed by Indians in the summer of 1780 at the point of the first island above Nashville. Jennings's will was presented for probate to the Davidson County Court on July 6, 1784 by James Robertson and William Fletcher. This is...