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12 Facts about Black History in Nashville
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Cumberland Furnace
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Many Nashvllians know that ironmaster Montgomery Bell (1769-1855) had an iron forge at the Narrows of the Harpeth in Davidson County 30 miles west of Nashville. Many have launched a canoe there. Far fewer know much about Cumberland Furnace, which Bell purchased for $16,000 in 1804 from James Robertson when he moved to Tennessee from Lexington, Ky. The wilderness tract included beech, elm, walnut, chestnut, oak and pine trees needed to make the charcoal to fuel the forge. Bell systematically purchased additional land, much of it in nearby Montgomery County, where he received permission from the county court to erect a ferry across the Cumberland River 10 miles east of Cumberland Furnace.
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The Nashville-French Connection
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Ridley Wills II’s oldest grandchild married a man from Paris earlier this year, which inspired this special History Corner.
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A Brief History of Dickson, Tennessee
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Sneedville later became Dickson, named for a Nashville Congressman.
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A Brief History of Portland, Tennessee
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Portland is located 14 miles north of Gallatin on the Highland Rim in extreme northern Middle Tennessee.
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Levi Watkins Jr.’s Legacy as Vanderbilt Medical School’s First African-American Student
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Levi Watkins Jr. was on the frontlines of the complicated task of integrating the Vanderbilt Medical School.
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Etowah – What Caused the Downturn:“Rest of The Story”
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The Etowah Depot and the town of Etowah began when the Louisville & Nashville railroad planned a new more direct route in 1902, between Cincinnati and Atlanta.
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The Sterick Building and Its Successors
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In 1930, the 29-story Sterick Building opened in downtown Memphis at the corner of Madison Avenue and North B.B.King Boulevard.
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The transition from livery stables to garages in downtown Nashville
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In 1917, Dr. Boots Brown had a livery station down the hill from the public square in downtown Nashville on First Avenue North. Each work day, Horton Early would ride to work in his carriage and horse from his home, Ponotoc, in East Nashville. He customarily crossed the river on the Woodland Street Bridge and proceeded to Dr. Brown’s livery station on First Ave. North near Broadway, where he left his horse, The Emperor, and buggy before walking up the hill to his harness and horse goods store Early-Cain at 715 Second Avenue North. He continued doing this well into the 1920s when modern paving hurt The Emperor’s hooves and forced Early to use an automobile.
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Clarksville: Queen City of the Cumberland
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Clarksville was once called “The Queen City of the Cumberland” because it was such an important market for corn, flour, cotton and particularly burley tobacco.