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(CHARLOTTE AREA) DAVIDSON COUNTY- NASHVILLE, TN- 1999 |
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Do you have information to provide? Your help is needed to make this site better for all the people inside and outside of Davidson County, Tennessee. We are particularly interested in documenting the history of Davidson County. If you have useable information we are anxious to publish it on this site or will provide a link if you have it already posted on the net. Many thanks. |
| HISTORY of CHARLOTTE AREA |
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BATTLE OF
NASHVILLE Calvary Action, December 15, 1864 Forming the outer arc of the Federal main attack, R W Johnson's 6th Cavalry Division, Wilson's Corps, here hit Rucker's Confederate Cavalry Brigade, west of Richland Creek. Withdrawing south to Harding Road. Rucker held there until by-passing Federal infantry forced further withdrawal to Hillsboro Pike late in the afternoon. |
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RICHLAND 0.8 mile north James Robertson built a station of the Cumberland Settlement prior to 1784. Around 1785 he built there one of the first brick houses in middle Tennessee, living meanwhile in a log house which stood about one mile northwest of here. The brick house, first called Travelers Rest, was named Richland about 1816. It burned in 1902. |
| AIRPORT in CHARLOTTE AREA |
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JOHN C TUNE AIRPORT |
| LANDMARKS in CHARLOTTE AREA |
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 Originally housed the F & AM Lodge |
| OLD COMMERCIAL BUILDING | OLD FIRE HALL BUILDING | OLD TENNESSEE STATE PRISON BUILDING | RICHLAND HALL BUILDING |
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 7200 Centennial Blvd |
| CENTENARY COMMUNITY | 38th AVENUE PUMPING STATION & RESERVOIR | FORD MOTOR COMPANY GLASS PLANT |
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| RIVER BEND MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON | MARINE CORPS RESERVE |
| CLUBS & LODGES of CHARLOTTE AREA |
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| LODGE BUILDING | LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE LODGE |
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| VFW POST #1970 | WEST NASHVILLE LODGE #612 F & AM |
| BOAT DOCKS & RAMPS of CHARLOTTE AREA |
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 Boat ramp to Cumberland River |
 525 Basswood Ave |
| COMMODORE YACHT CLUB | OLD CLEE'S FERRY RAMP | ROCK HARBOR MARINA |
| HIGHER EDUCATION of CHARLOTTE AREA |
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| NASHVILLE STATE TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE |
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Founded 1912
for the education of Negro citizens Originally called Tennessee A & I State Normal School Became Tennessee A & I State Normal College 1922 Name changed to Tennessee A & I State College 1927 |
Became Tennessee A & I State
University 1951 Name changed to Tennessee State University 1970 Merged with UT Nashville 1979 |
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TSUS RESERVE OFFICERS'
TRAINING CORPS Established in April 1919, the Reserve Officers' Corps at Tennessee State University (then Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School) was one of the first ROTC units at an African-American college. Under First Lieutenant Grant Stuart, emphasis was placed on military science and preparing African-American officers as leaders. |
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