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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.
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.
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]
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.
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 ...
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.
The Nashville Zoo has been a staple in the region for the past three decades, welcoming more than 1 million visitors each year. It is now home to more than 3,700 animals representing more than 350 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Dozier Farm, also known as Cliffview Farm, is a historic mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S..