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Belle Meade Farm gained a national reputation in the latter half of the 19th century for breeding thoroughbred horse racing stock, notably a celebrated stallion, Iroquois. In the Civil War, when the Union Army took control of Nashville, the mansion was pillaged and looted by soldiers who spent weeks quartered there; the owner was imprisoned. In ...
Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, closed in 1998 [58] Music Valley Wax Museum, Nashville [59] Obion County Museum, Union City, closed in 2012, collections moved to Discovery Park of Americar [60] Smoky Mountain Car Museum, Pigeon Forge [61] Soda Museum, Springfield, also known as the Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising [62]
His family moved to Davidson County, Tennessee in 1798, [2] in what was known as Middle Tennessee of the Grand Divisions. His grandfather had owned slaves in Virginia, and his father, Giles Harding, brought several with the family to Tennessee. [4] [7] John Harding also owned slaves and became the third-largest slaveholder in Davidson County by ...
Here are 10 museums to visit during Black History Month 2023 to delve into African American history and civil rights, from Montgomery to Baltimore.
Downlands Cancara assisted in raising many hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity, supporting such organisations as The Macmillan Nurse Appeal, Riding for the Disabled, his local Rowan's Hospice, The International League for the Protection of Horses, (now World Horse Welfare) Special Wishes for terminally ill young people and Children in Need, where he walked from Lloyds Bank in Cosham to ...
Among paintings by American artists and memorabilia from Tennessee’s 1897 Centennial Exposition — the event for which the Parthenon was built — she found a random assortment of pre-Columbian ...
An example of an African American museum: The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum. Woodson was the founder of Black History Month, and a noted educator. This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums ...
William Giles Harding (1808 – December 15, 1886) was a Southern planter, attorney, and horse breeder who was made a Brigadier General in the Tennessee militia before the American Civil War. He took over operations of Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville from his father in 1839.