Historical Marker
Bledsoe's Lick
Historical marker location:
2901 Hartsville Pike, Castalian Springs, Tennessee
( Marker can be reached from Hartsville Pike (Tennessee Route 25) east of Hilton Lane, on the left when traveling east.)
Ice Age to World War II.
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.