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  2. History of Nashville, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Lloyd, Richard.

  3. William Giles Harding - Wikipedia

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    In addition to her own family of three, her sister Mary McGavock Southall; stock manager William Hague; farm manager James Beasley and his family of seven; Rachael Noris, a free mulatto woman; and 137 enslaved were all living at Belle Meade. Harding was released on $20,000 bond and returned to Nashville. [4]

  4. Benjamin F. Cockrill Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Cockrill was a farmer in Nashville. [1] He raised stock in Warrenton, Virginia from 1890 to 1896, only to return to his Nashville farm. [1] He established a new farm in West Nashville in 1902. [1] Cockrill was a member of the Democratic Party. [1] He served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1902 to 1905, representing ...

  5. Ellington Agricultural Center - Wikipedia

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    Ellington Agricultural Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 2023. The Ellington Agricultural Center is a 207 acres (84 ha) acre campus in Nashville, Tennessee, which features many structures housing the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and the Tennessee Agricultural Museum as well as other state agencies related to agriculture.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Tennessee

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    Farm first settled in 1830 by Joseph Williamson and family in the small community of Liberty just east of Granville. Historic home built in 1850 by Andrew Jackson Vantrease. Samuel Sampson Carver purchased property in 1890, operating a saw mill, blacksmith shop, and general store in addition to his agricultural uses.

  7. John Gordon (militia captain) - Wikipedia

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    John Gordon, (July 15, 1759 – June 6, 1819) was an American pioneer, Indian trader, planter, and militia captain in several Indian wars.Part of the post-Revolutionary War settlement of the trans-Appalachian frontier, Gordon was an early settler in the Nashville, Tennessee area.

  8. Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780–1930: Elites and Dilemmas. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-555-1. Carey, Bill (2000). Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, Tennessee: Hillsboro Press. ISBN 1-57736-178-4.

  9. Travellers Rest (Nashville, Tennessee) - Wikipedia

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    Travellers Rest, also known as Golgotha, [2] is a former plantation and historic plantation house, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The first owner of the site was John Overton in 1796, who built the first family home in 1799. [ 2 ]