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1878 Map
This is an early map of Nashville in 1875, approximately a 100 years after the original settlement of Nashborough in 1780.
1898 Map
This map was created by the Seventeenth International Christian Endeavor Convention held in Nashville July 6-11, 1898. The convention was sponsored by the Young People's Christian Endeavor Society. This group was organized as part of the "muscular…
Nashville Bible School (David Lipscomb College)
This cabin was home, periodically, up to 1882 of educator, editor, and religious leader David Lipscomb and wife, Margaret Zellner Lipscomb. It was originally located on Bell's Bend and moved to its present site in 1985. It served as the basis…
Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School (Tennessee State University)
Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes first opened its doors to 247 students in 1912. This site gave birth to a new era--public higher education for Tennessee's African Americans with emphasis on occupational…
University of Nashville
The University of Nashville was an educational institution that existed as a distinct entity from 1826 until 1909. Born out of Davidson Academy and Cumberland College, the University of Nashville played a large role in making Nashville the "Athens of…
Fisk University
Fisk University was established six months after the end of the Civil War by John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith. They named the school in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen's…
Belmont College for Young Women
Belmont College for Young Women was founded by Susan L. Heron and Ida E. Hood, opened on September 4, 1890. Modeled on the women’s colleges of the Northeast, the school was established on a 15-acres of the former Belmont estate, including the mansion…
Peabody College for Teachers
Peabody College was founded in 1875 when the University of Nashville, located in Nashville, Tennessee, split into two separate educational institutions. The preparatory demonstration school, University School of Nashville, separated from the college…
Meharry Medical College
Meharry Medical College, established in 1876 through the efforts of Dr. George W. Hubbard, Dr. William J. Sneed, and Samuel Meharry, is the only AMA accredited, privately endowed, predominantly African American medical school in the world.…