Historical Markers in Davidson County, Tennessee
A Birthplace of Freedom
A Future President's Home
A home for Jacksons Slaves
A Lake Called Watauga
A Landscape Of Inequality
A Lively Place
A National Cemetery System
Abandonment and Preservation
Abner T. Shaw House
Academic Building At Fisk University
Address by President Lincoln at the Dedication of The Gettysburg National Cemetery
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham
Adolphus Heiman
Adolphus Heiman
Albert Gleaves
Albertine Maxwell
Alexander Little Page Green
Alexander Wilson
Alfred Z. Kelley
Alfreds Cabin
All the Park's a Stage
Alvin C. York
Amqui Station
An Urban Greenway
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Anne Dallas Dudley
Antioch Pike
Arna Wendell Bontemps
Assault on Montgomery Hill
Assumption Church / Cardinal Stritch
Athletic Park
Avon N. Williams, Jr.
Banner Building
Baptist Sunday School Board Building
Baseball in Civil War Nashville
Baseball Returns
Battle of Nashville
Battle of Nashville
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Battle of Nashville
Battle of Nashville
Battle of Nashville Confederate Line
Battle of Nashville Monument
Battle of the Bluffs
Belle Meade Bourbon
Belle Meade Deer Park
Belle Meade Golf Links Historic District
Belle Meade Plantation
Belle Vue
Bells Bend / Scottsboro
Belmont Church and Koinonia Coffeehouse / Contemporary Christian Music
Belmont Domestic Academy
Belmont Mansion
Belmont-Hillsboro Neighborhood
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
Berger Building / WDAD Radio Station Where Dollars are Doubled
Bethlehem Centers of Nashville
Betty Chiles Nixon
Birth of Bluegrass
Bison Meadow
Black Churches of Capitol Hill
Blackwood Field
Blue Triangle YWCA
BMI
Bombing of the Z. Alexander Looby Home
Bradley Recording Studio Hillsboro Village
Bradley Studios
Brewery at Mill Creek
Buchanan Log House
Buchanan Station Cemetery
Buchanan's Station
Buchanans Station
Buchanans Station Cemetery
Building Fort Negley / African American Labor
Buried City
Cabin-by-the-Spring
Campaign for the Vote
Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Capers Memorial CME Church
Captain Alexander "Devil Alex" Ewing
Captain James St. Clair Morton
Captain John Gordon 1763-1819
Captain John Rains
Captain Ryman's Home
Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery
Caroline Meriwether Goodlett
Carper Homestead
Carriage House, c. 1850s
Casper Mansker
Cavalry Action (Dec 15, 1864)
Centenary Methodist Institute
Centenary United Methodist Church / Rev. William Gower (1776-1851)
Centennial Park Swimming Pool
Central High School
Charlotte Road
Cheathams Line
Chickasaw Treaty
Chicken House, c. 1920s
Christ Church Cathedral / Old Christ Church (1831~1890)
Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company
City Cemetery
City of Edgefield
Civil War at The Hermitage
Clark Memorial United Methodist Church
Clover Bottom
Clover Bottom Farm
Clover Bottom Mansion
Club Baron
Coach Ed Temple
Cockrill Bend
Cockrill School
Cockrill Spring
Cohn School / W.R. Rochelle (1904-1989)
Colonel James Robertson
Colonel John Donelson
Colonel Richard Henderson
Confederate Cemetery
Confederate Circle at Mount Olivet
Confederate Defenses
Confederate Private Monument
Confederate Soldiers' Home
Cora Howe's "Wildings"
Cornelia Fort Airport
Cravath Hall
Crieve Hall
Cumberland Park
Customs House
Dairy
Davidson County / Sumner County
Decline and Restoration of Fort Negley
DeFord Bailey
Demonbreum's Cave
DeMoss Cabin
Desegregating Nashville's Lunch Counters
Determined Resistance
Disciples of Christ Historical Society
Doctors Building
Dodson School
Donley Harold Turpin, D. D. S.
Downtown Presbyterian Church
Dr. Harold Dadford West, Sr.
Dr. Matthew Walker Sr.
Dry-Stack Stone Walls
Dudley Park
Duncan College Preparatory School for Boys
Dutchmans Curve Train Wreck
Earl Eugene Scruggs
East Nashville Fire
East Nashville Fire
Eastland
Edmondson Home Site
Edwin W. Craig
Edwin Warner Park
Elizabeth Atchison Eakin
Ella Sheppard (Moore)
End of an Era
Engine Company No. 11
Erected November 21, 1909
Evergreen Place
Explore The Hermitage Grounds
Ezell House
Fall School
Federal Defenses
Federal Defenses
Fehr School
Felix K. Zollicoffer
Field Quarter Trail
Field Quarter Trail
First Airfield
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
First Bridge Over the Cumberland
First Community Church
First Masonic Hall
First State Penitentiary
First Steam Locomotive
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Fisk Memorial Chapel
Fisk University
Fort Design
Fort Nashborough
Fort Negley
Fort Negley
Fort Negley Site
Fortress Nashville / Forts
Founding of Altrusa International
Founding of Nashville
Founding of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Fourth and Church
Francis Craig Residence
Frank Maxwell Andrews
Frederick Stump
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Bank / Duncan Hotel
Freeland's Station
Gateway Bridge
Gen. Sam G. Smith
George Earl Maney
George Woods
Germantown Brewery District
Germantown Historic District
Gerst House
Ginning and Pressing "King Cotton"
Glendale Park
Glenn School / School Desegregation in Nashville Nashville Plan Schools
Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Governors' Mansion
Granburys Lunette
GranDale
Granny White Grave
Greenwood Park
Griggs Hall
Growing Cotton
Hadley Park
Haynes High School
HCA Healthcare
Heaton's Station
Heaton's Station
Hells Half Acre
Hill Forest
Hill McAlister
Hillsboro Theater
Hillsboro Toll Gate
Hillsboro-West End
Hillwood Estates
Historic Bellevue
Historic Castner Knott Building
History of Edgehill
History of Spring Hill Cemetery
Holly Street Fire Hall / Bass Park
Holy Rosary Cathedral
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
Homes of David Lipscomb
Hood's Retreat
Horse Barn, c. 1890s
Hospital Water Source
Houston's Law Office
Hubbard House
Hulda Margaret Lyttle
Hume-Fogg High School
Hunter's Hill
Hyde's Ferry Turnpike
Hylan Leitus Rosser
Ice Age Elephant
Ice House
Icehouse
Immaculate Mother Academy
In 1807
In 1865
In Memory of Alfred Hume
In Memory of Casper Mansker
In Memory of Colonel Luke Lea
In Memory of Francis Fogg
In Memory of the Confederate Soldiers Who Were Buried in the City Cemetery
Indian Captivity
J. W. Price Fire Hall
Jack Clement Recording Studios
Jackson's Law Office
Jacques Timothe Boucher de Montbrun
James Carroll Napier
James Edwards Rains
James K. Polk
James Robertson
James Weldon Johnson Home
Jefferson Street Music District
Jewish Community Center Bombing
John Bell
John Bell's Birthplace
John Haywood
John Robert Lee Bradley
John Robert Lewis
John Trotwood Moore
John W. Thomas
Johnson's Station
Jones School / School Desegregation in Nashville Nashville Plan Schools
Josephine Groves Holloway / Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee
Journey West: Forced Removal of the Cherokee
Joy Floral Company
Jubilee Hall
Julia McClung Green
Juno Frankie Pierce
Kelley vs. Board of Education of Nashville / East High School
Kenner Manor Historic District
Lake Providence Community
Land Conservation at The Hermitage
Land Conservation at The Hermitage
Lest We Forget: The Middle Passage
Lieutenant General Alexander Peter Stewart
Lieutenant Henry Alvin Cameron 1875-1918 / Cameron School
Lieutenant James Simmons Timothy
Little Jimmy Dickens
Lock 2 Park
Lockeland Spring
Locust Hill
Louise Certain Scruggs
Love Circle Park
Loveless Cafe and Motel
Lt William McBryar, Buffalo Soldier
Lt. Henry M. Doak
Luke Lea Heights
Lynching in America / The Lynchings of Henry and Ephraim Grizzard
Madison Adventist Origins
Madison College
Major Henry M. Rutledge
Major Wilbur Fisk Foster
Mansker's Forts and Walton's Campground
Manskers First Fort
Manskers Station
Marathon Motor Car
Marathon Motor Works
Mark Robertson Cockrill
Mary Catherine Schweiss Strobel
Mary Elizabeth Bradford Johns
Mary Kate Patterson Davis Hill Kyle
Mausoleum
Maxwell House Hotel
May Hosiery Mills
May-Granbery House and Alford Cemetery
McConnell Field
McConnell Field
Meharry Medical College
Meigs School
Melrose
Memorial to Corporal William F. Lyell
Mill Creek Baptist Church and Graveyard
Mineral Water
Minnesota
Mississippi to Nashville
Monroe Harding
Montgomery Bell Academy
Morris Memorial Building / Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Nashville Alumnae Chapter
Mount Ararat Cemetery
Mount Pisgah Community
Mrs. John Donelson
Mrs. John Hill Eakin - Mrs. Robert F. Weakley
Mud Tavern
Music Row
Nashville Academy of Medicine
Nashville Academy of Medicine
Nashville Blacks in the Civil War
Nashville Centennial
Nashville Fire Department
Nashville General Hospital
Nashville Inn
Nashville Plow Works
Nashville Porter and Ale Brewery
Nashville Sit-Ins
Nashville Sit-Ins
Nashville Student Movement Office
Nashville Surrendered
Nashville YMCA
Nashville's First Public School
Nashville's First Radio Station
Nashville's Music Row
Natchez Trace
Natchez Trace
National Negro High School Basketball Tournament
Native American Plaza
Nettie Napier Day Home Club
New Bethel Baptist Church
New Hope Baptist Church
Newsom's Mill
Nineteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
Nobles Corner
North Nashville High School
Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage, Inc.
Odoms Tennessee Pride Country Sausage
Oglesby Community House
Old Harding Pike
Old Hickory Powder Plant
Old Hickory Triangle
Old Hickory Village
Old Stone Bridge
Olive Branch Missionary Baptist Church
On This Site Stood the Nashville Inn
Origins of Baseball in Nashville
Our Peace: Follow the Drinking Gourd
Pageantry & Promotion at the Exposition
Paradise Ridge
Parmer School
Patsy Cline's Dream House
Peach Blossom
Peach Orchard Hill
Pearl High School
Penny Campbell
Percy Warner Park
Platform Mound
Post-Emancipation Violence in America / Lynching and the Subversion of Legal Rights
Powder Grinding Wheels
Preston Taylor
Printer's Alley Garage
Property, Family, Humanity
Rachel Carter Craighead
Radnor College
Randall Jarrell
RCA Studio B
Redoubt No. 4, Battle of Nashville
Redoubt One
Remnants of the University of Nashville
Rev. Bill Barnes
Rev. Nelson G. Merry
Rev. Pharaoh H. Benson
Richard H. Fulton Campus
Richard S. Ewell
Richardson House
Richland
Richland Park
Richland-West End
River Cane
Riverside Sanitarium and Hospital / Dorothy Lavinia Brown, M.D.
Robertson Academy
Robertson Avenue
Rock City
Roger Williams University
Ryman Auditorium
Saint Cecilia Academy
Saint Thomas Hospital
Sally Port
Salt Industry
Sam Davis of Tennessee
Sampson W. Keeble
Samuel Allen McElwee
Samuel Dold Morgan 1798-1880
Samuel R. Lowery
Samuel Watkins
Sarah Estell
Scarritt College for Christian Workers
Schofield's Jump-Off Line
School Desegregation in Nashville Nashville Plan Schools / Emma Clemons School
Shelby Street Bridge
Site of First Store
Site of Isaac Litton High School
Site of Original Gas Works
Site of Waterworks Plant
Slave Burials
Slave Cabin
Slave Cabins, c. 1858
Smith Farmhouse
Smith House
Smith-Carter House
Spruce Street Baptist Church
St. Ann Catholic Church and School
St. Patrick Catholic Church
Stone Hall / Eversong
Stories Told by Things the Enslaved Left Behind
Sulphur Dell
Sunnyside
Surrender of Nashville 612 Woodland Street
Surrender of Nashville East Bank of the Cumberland
Sylvan Park School
Talley-Brady Hall
Tanglewood Historic District
Tennessee Baptist Orphans' Home
Tennessee Confederate Soldiers' Home Cemetery Monument
Tennessee Hospital for the Insane
Tennessee Ornithological Society
Tennessee State Capitol
Tennessee State University
Tennessee State University
Tennessee Tower
Tennessee/Spring Water Brewery
The Architectural Evolution Of The Hermitage
The Battle of Nashville
The Belle Meade Railway Station
The Belted Galloway
The Bluff Station
The Bordeaux Community and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge/Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge
The Children's Museum
The Civil War
The Craighead House
The Cumberland Compact
The Cumberland Settlements
The Donelson Family Cemetery
The Edgehill Community
The Exposition Ends, Centennial Park Begins
The Exposition's Negro Building
The Field Quarter
The Field Quarter Spring
The First Hermitage
The First Peoples
The Frank House
The Garden Privy
The Grandstands
The Harpeth Hall School
The Harris Music Building
The Hermitage
The Hermitage Church
The Hermitage Garden
The Hermitage Hotel
The Hermitage Landscape
The Hermitage Landscape
The Hermitage Mansion
The Hermitage Overseer
The Hunters Hill Farm Building
The Jackson Family Cemetery
The Jacksons and Religion
The James Gang
The John Wesley Work Home
The Jungle and Juanita's
The Little Theatre
The Logue House
The Myhr House
The Nashville Brewery
The Nashville City Cemetery / Old Glory
The Nashville Parthenon
The Nashville Race Course
The Nashville Slave Market
The Nashville Vols
The Natchez Trace
The Negro Leagues
The North Cabin
The Old Woman's Home
The Parthenon
The Parthenon
The Road to War
The Rock Block
The Seeing Eye
The South Field
The Sportswriters
The Springhouse
The Temple Cemetery
The Tennessee Centennial Exposition
The Triplex
The War Road
The Work Yard
Theodore "Ted" Rhodes
Thomas Benton Smith
Thomas Green Ryman
Thomas H. Shriver Towers
Thomas Overton
Thomas W. Talley
Timothy Demonbreun
To the Heros of 1776-Not Dead! -But living in deeds such lives inspire
Tolbert Fanning
Tolbert Hollow
Tom Wilson Park / Thomas T. Wilson
Tomb of James Knox Polk
Transfer Station Site
Travellers Rest
Travellers' Rest
TSU's Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Tulip Grove
Tulip Grove
Turner Grammar School
Two Governors, Two Governments
Two Rivers Mansion
Una Community
Union Major General Don Carlos Buell
Union Station
United Nations Visit To Nashville
University School of Nashville
Vanderbilt Memorial Gymnasium
Vanderbilt University
Vauxhall Garden Site
Vine Hill / Donau
Vine Street Christian Church
Vine Street Christian Church
Vine Street Temple
Votes for Women
Wallace University School
War in the West
War in the West: Battles and Campaigns
War Memorial Auditorium
War on the Home Front
Ward-Belmont College
Ward's Seminary
Warner Parks
Washington Hall
Watkins Park
Waverly Place
West End High School
West Meade
Whites Creek and the War
William Bowen House
William Brimage Bate
William Carroll
William Driver
William Driver
William Edmondson
William Edmondson Studio and Home Site
William Edward Burghardt DuBois
William Hicks Jackson
William J. Faulkner
William Nelson Rector Beall
William Strickland 1788-1864
William Walker
Woman Suffrage Rallies
Woodbine
Woodmont Estates
Woodmont School
XVI Corps Line of Departure
Zephaniah Alexander Looby
"Have the Negro Houses Placed Where the Old Ones Stands"
"Historic Talbot's Corner" / Thomas Talbot 1760-1831
"Western Harmony"
A Being so Gentle And Yet So Virtuous
Travelers' Rest
About Davidson County
Davidson County Timeline
Davidson County, Tennessee is an area rich in history that dates back thousands of years. The region was originally inhabited by various Native American tribes, including the Chickasaw and the Shawnee. European explorers, most notably French traders, began to explore the area in the 18th century.
The county is named after General William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina militia officer who was killed in the Revolutionary War. Davidson County was established in 1783, making it one of the oldest counties in Tennessee. The city of Nashville, which is the county seat, was founded soon after, in 1780.
Throughout its history, Davidson County has played a significant role in the development of Tennessee and the United States. In the early 19th century, Nashville became a hub for trade and transportation, as well as a center for education and culture. The city thrived as a port along the Cumberland River and became an important cotton trading hub.
During the Civil War, Davidson County witnessed several significant events. The Battle of Nashville, a major Union victory, took place here in 1864 and marked a turning point in the war. The city also served as a center for the Union's military operations throughout the region.
In the decades following the Civil War, Davidson County continued to grow and evolve. It became known as the "Athens of the South" for its esteemed institutions of higher education, including Vanderbilt University and Fisk University. Today, Davidson County remains a cultural and economic center of Tennessee, with a flourishing music scene, lively downtown area, and a diverse population.
The county is named after General William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina militia officer who was killed in the Revolutionary War. Davidson County was established in 1783, making it one of the oldest counties in Tennessee. The city of Nashville, which is the county seat, was founded soon after, in 1780.
Throughout its history, Davidson County has played a significant role in the development of Tennessee and the United States. In the early 19th century, Nashville became a hub for trade and transportation, as well as a center for education and culture. The city thrived as a port along the Cumberland River and became an important cotton trading hub.
During the Civil War, Davidson County witnessed several significant events. The Battle of Nashville, a major Union victory, took place here in 1864 and marked a turning point in the war. The city also served as a center for the Union's military operations throughout the region.
In the decades following the Civil War, Davidson County continued to grow and evolve. It became known as the "Athens of the South" for its esteemed institutions of higher education, including Vanderbilt University and Fisk University. Today, Davidson County remains a cultural and economic center of Tennessee, with a flourishing music scene, lively downtown area, and a diverse population.
Davidson County Timeline
This timeline provides a concise overview of the key events in the history of Davidson County, Tennessee.
- 1783 – Davidson County is created by the North Carolina legislature and named in honor of William Lee Davidson.
- 1784 – Nashville is established as the county seat of Davidson County.
- 1806 – The Tennessee State Capitol building, also located in Davidson County, is completed.
- 1812 – A new courthouse is constructed in Nashville.
- 1861 – Tennessee secedes from the Union and joins the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
- 1864 – Nashville becomes the first Confederate state capital to fall to Union forces during the Civil War.
- 1868 – The Tennessee State Capitol building is restored and reopened after being damaged during the Civil War.
- 1871 – A new Davidson County Courthouse is constructed in Nashville to replace the previous one.
- 1963 – The Parthenon replica in Centennial Park is completed, becoming a popular tourist attraction in Davidson County.
- 1997 – Riverfront Park, a waterfront park along the Cumberland River, is opened in downtown Nashville.
- 2010 – The 2010 flood devastates parts of Davidson County, causing significant damage to homes and infrastructure.