Finally, as previously mentioned, it arrived in Atlanta via the Western & Atlantic, a system leased to subsidiary NC&StL in 1890. With the L&N’s through routes in place by 1905 the railroad shifted focus towards building up its freight business. System Map (1940) An official, 1940 system...
Focus on the western end of the Nashville Division details here Nashville Steam Preservation Societycontinues to make progress in the restoration of Engine 576.More info here. Newsletter Now Online NCPS Members can check out theSpring 2025 Newsletter ...
The capital of Tennessee, in the north-central part of the state northeast of Memphis. Founded in 1779 as Fort Nashborough, it was renamed in 1784 and became the permanent capital in 1843. Nashville is a port of entry and major commercial center known especially for its country music industr...
railroad yard and depot, Nashville, Tennessee, 1864Railroad yard and depot with locomotives, Nashville, Tennessee, with the state capitol in the distance; photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. 3 of 3 Nashville, TennesseeCovered cannon on the steps of the capitol, Nashville, Tennessee, photograp...
southward. When morning dawned on the second day of fighting, the over-extended Confederate line had been compressed into roughly the shape of an upside-down U between Hillsboro Road to the west and the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad to the east and a mile or two south of the previous ...
The Cameron-Trimble Neighborhood (bounded by Fourth Ave S, Lafayette St, and the railroad tracks near Brown's Creek in south Nashville) is the oldest surviving African-American neighborhood in Nashville. The name Trimble comes from the owner of the plantation once situated here and on which the...
John W. Thomas, President of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway, was president of the exposition. Major Eugene Castner Lewis, Chairman of the Board of NC & SL railroad, was Director-General. He had orginated the idea of the Parthenon. The other officers of the exposition ...
Nashville’s economy is booming right now and with it some neighborhoods are experiencing a renaissance, The Gulch is getting a total revamp. Once a pretty rough part of town, nowheresville along the railroad tracks, the Gulch now has some high-rise apartments, fancy restaurants and destination...
Interstate Commerce Commission, Plaintiff-appellee, and Cityof Memphis, Tennessee, and Railway Laborexecutives' Association,intervenor-plaintiffs-appellees, v. Memphis Union Station Company, Missouri Pacific Railroadcompany, Unionrailway Company, Louisvi
The university was chartered in 1872 as Central University by the Southern branch of the Methodist Episcopal church. WhenshippingandrailroadmagnateCornelius Vanderbiltdonated $1,000,000 in 1873, the school was founded as Vanderbilt University, and classes began two years later. Initially, the universit...