Historical Marker
First Hospital
Historical marker location:
205 E Commerce St, Loretto, Tennessee
( Marker is on East Commerce Street west of North Main Street, on the right when traveling west.)
The city of Nashville played an important role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The city was the site of the first sit-in protest in the United States, when a group of African American college students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Nashville in 1960.