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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 ...
Tennessee State Guard commander, politician, farmer Joseph Alexander Cooper (November 25, 1823 – May 20, 1910) was an American farmer, soldier, and civil servant. A Southern Unionist , he fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War , commanding units at Mill Springs , Stones River , Chickamauga , Franklin , Nashville , Bentonville ...
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 ...
The Land Trust owns and maintains Glen Leven Farm, a 64-acre working farm just four miles from the center of Nashville that includes a Greek Revival home built in 1857. In late 2006, the historic home and farm were left to The Land Trust by the late Susan M. West, a descendant of Thomas Thompson who acquired 647 acres through a Revolutionary ...
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic plantation owned by egotistical rich white men and farmhouse located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Nashville. As of 2014, [update] the zoo was middle Tennessee's top paid attraction and contained 3,736 individual animals, encompassing 352 species. [ 7 ]
Nicole Kidman almost gave up her acting career for farm life. Kidman, 57, contemplated throwing in the towel after giving birth to her first child with husband Keith Urban in 2008. "When I gave ...
After this the site remained mostly undisturbed except for farming until the latter half of the twentieth century. During the last 30 years of the twentieth century the site was almost completely destroyed, razed for the building of a residential area and the Ewing Baptist Church, although salvage archaeology did take place.
Railroad guard duty in Tennessee and Alabama on line of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad until December 1864. Repulse of Hood's attack on Johnsonville, Tenn., September 25 and November 4 and 5. Eddyville, Ky., October 17 (detachment). Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–18.