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TENNESSEE- (GREEN HILLS AREA)- DAVIDSON COUNTY- NASHVILLE, TN- 1997

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(GREEN HILLS AREA)
DAVIDSON COUNTY- NASHVILLE, TN- 1997

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HISTORY of GREEN HILLS AREA

NATCHEZ TRACE
Oldest historic highway marker in the lower south
Set in 1812 by Thomas Hart Benton Chapter

FIRST AIRFIELD
E L Hampton's pasture became "Hampton Field" when transient airplanes began landing here during the first World War. About 2,000 feet long from here west, bounded north and south by Golf Club Lane and Woodmont Boulevard, it continued in use as Nashville's first airfield about five years until the opening of Blackwood Field in 1921.

CIVIL WAR BATTLES

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE (Lumsden's Defense, December 15, 1864)
0.3 miles west was Redoubt No. 4 in Hood's detached supporting works. Garrlsoned by Lumsden's Battery of smoothbore Napoleons, supported by 100 men of the 29th Alabama Infantry under Captain Foster. It was finally overrun by the assault of 12 infantry and 4 dismounted cavalry regiments, supported by four Federal batteries.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE (Taking of Redoubt No 5, December 15, 1864)
Hood's Redoubt No. 5 was on this hill. Couch's Division of the XXIII Corps, sweeping to the south of the route of Smith's XVI, captured it and the hills to the east late in the afternoon. Wilson's cavalry, crossing the highway about 2 miles south, advanced rapidly eastward flanking the Confederate defenses.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE (Confederate Line, December 15, 1864)
Trenches about 20 feet north of this point, held by Loring's Division, were the center of the Confederate main line before the Battle of Nashville. On December 15, 1864, Redoubt No. 1, a key artillery salient 200 yards NW, fired on Federal forces until overrun by General Wood's troops late in the day, when Confederates retreated toward Granny White Pike.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE (Federal Main Line, December 16, 1864)
On December 16, 1864, Union Forces held a main line through this point facing Shy's Hill to the south. The 23rd Corps held the line to the west with the 16th Corps to the east. The first Brigade of General John McArthur's Division used this line as a jump-off point in its successful assault on Shy's Hill with the resulting collapse of General Hood's line.

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE (Confederate Outpost, December 15, 1864)
100 yards west was Redoubt No. 5 in the Confederate system of detached works beyond the main line. It was overrun by the enveloping attack of Wood's IV Corps from the northwest.

HIGHER EDUCATION of GREEN HILLS AREA

DAVID LIPSCOMB COLLEGE

Until 1882, site was home of David Lipscomb and his wife Margaret Zellner Lipscomb.
Lipscomb was an educator, editor and religious leader.
In 1985, the Associated Ladies for Lipscomb moved the cabin here from Bell’s Bend.

In 1903 the Lipscomb's built Avalon, their final home.
The surrounding farmland became the campus for Nashville Bible School.
It was founded in 1891 by Lipscomb and A J Harding.
After Lipscomb died, the school was named David Lipscomb College.
Avalon Hall is dedicated to Margaret Zellner Lipscomb (1842-1926).

HOME OF DAVID LIPSCOMB


Signs of Lipscomb	Campus Map	Willard Collins Alumni Auditorium

Home of Bisons basketball	Dedicated 1991 to Ken Dugan He was a player, coach, teacher and friend
McQuiddy Gymnasium	Dugan Field	Bison Tennis