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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28D_desegregating-nashvilles-lunch-counters_Nashville-TN.html
After the pre-dawn bombing of atty. Z. Alexander Looby's home, approx. 3000 civil rights leaders and students from Tenn. St., Fisk, Meharry, American Baptist College, and Pearl High School marched along this route on April 19, 1960, to meet with M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28C_donley-harold-turpin-d-d-s_Nashville-TN.html
1892-1948 Turpin, a 1918 alumnus, was appointed Professor in 1937 and acting dean of the Dental School in 1938. Attesting to his profound devotion to Meharry's School of Dentistry, which was founded in 1886, Turpin gave his personal finances to ke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28B_hulda-margaret-lyttle_Nashville-TN.html
1889-1983In 1913, Hulda M. Lyttle was one of three graduates in the first nursing education class of Meharry's G. W. Hubbard Hospital. In 1916, Lyttle returned to Meharry as Director of Nurse Training. Between 1921 and 1938, she served as superint…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28A_citizens-savings-bank-and-trust-company_Nashville-TN.html
(Obverse)Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company is the oldest, continuously operated African-American bank in the United States. Formerly known as the One-cent Savings Bank and Trust Company and organized for the uplift of African Americans, it o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM289_hadley-park_Nashville-TN.html
In 1912, Nashville officials purchased 34 acres of land to provide a public park for Negro citizens. Originally a part of the John L. Hadley plantation, Hadley Park was dedicated on July 4th. It is considered the first public park in the United St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26T_the-parthenon_Nashville-TN.html
Erected as the central structure of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897, this is the only full-scale reproduction of the fifth century B.C. Athenian temple and is exact in almost every detail to the original. The idea of reproducing the magn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26O_jubilee-hall_Nashville-TN.html
Erected in 1876, Jubilee Hall was the first permanent structure built on the Fisk University campus. Named for Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers, this Victorian Gothic structure is sometimes called "frozen music." Jubilee Hall is a National Hist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26L_battle-of-nashville_Nashville-TN.html
The hill to the west was a strong point in the system of permanent Federal defenses, started in 1862, which extended to the river on both sides of the town. Artillery was emplaced here from time to time.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26K_powder-grinding-wheels_Nashville-TN.html
These wheels used by the Confederacy to grind gunpowder at Augusta, Ga in 1863-1864 were made in Woolwich, England and were shipped on the blockade runner "Spray," via Mobile. After the war Gen. Miles purchased them for use at Sycamore Powder Mill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26I_major-wilbur-fisk-foster_Nashville-TN.html
1834-1922 Chief Engr. Army of Tenn. C.S.A.; Construction Engineer on first R.R. Bridge in Nashville; City Engineer of Nashville and Member of American Society of civil Engineers; Director of Works at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, 1897 & Co-…