Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A statue of Jefferson Davis stood in Memphis Park (originally, "Confederate Park" [8]) in Memphis, Tennessee. Removed in 2017. A large 351-foot (107 m) tall concrete obelisk at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky marks the site of his birthplace. Construction of the monument began in 1917 and finished in 1924 at a cost ...
Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. Many of Nashville's prominent historical figures are buried there. It includes the tombs of 22,000 people, 6,000 of whom were African Americans.
Thomas Owen Morris (1845–1924), Mayor of Nashville, 1906–08. [5] John W. Morton, Confederate veteran, founder of the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, Tennessee Secretary of State, 1901–09. [13] William Nichol (1800–1878), Mayor of Nashville, 1835–37. [5] John Overton, friend of Andrew Jackson and one of the founders of Memphis ...
Woodlawn Memorial Park is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville, known as a site where many prominent country music personalities are buried including Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Eddy Arnold. It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history.
A Nashville City Paper article on 2003 council member salary raises; A The Tennessean article on the council meeting on council size changes; Cass, Michael (16 April 2006). "Council shrinks on its own". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. pp. B1, B6 – via Newspapers.com. - An article from The Tennessean on member resignations; Metro Council ...
The 36 council members at Monday’s meeting unanimously supported reinstating Jones. The council had suspended its rules to allow an immediate vote instead of holding a monthlong nomination period.
On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...
Gates P. Thrustons 1890 manuscript, which started as a piece on a stone box grave cemetery found in Nashville, was the first comprehensive analysis of artifacts for the state of Tennessee. Thruston's conclusions about the builders of the local mounds and box graves added to the 19th-century myth of the " Moundbuilders ", who were believed to be ...