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 Nashville, Tennessee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It was renamed Nashville in 1784 when it became established as a town, and became the capital of Tennessee in 1843.
Nashville has several arts centers and museums, including the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located in what was formerly the main post office; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art; the Tennessee State Museum; Fisk University's Van Vechten and Aaron Douglas Galleries; and The Parthenon.
Nashville is also the home of the Nashville Metros, an amateur USL Premier Development League soccer club, and the Nashville Kangaroos, an Australian rules football team.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nashville,-Tennessee.htm   (2409 words)

  
 Railroad Guide: Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
Incorporated in Virginia in 1870 for the purpose of consolidating the Norfolk and Petersburg, the Southside, the Virginia and Tennessee, and the Virginia and Kentucky railroads.
Reorganized in 1880 from the Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
Reorganized in 1879 as the Louisville, New Albany and St.
spec.lib.vt.edu /railroad/guiderr.htm   (13515 words)

  
 Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Co. v.
P. A railroad company brings gasoline into Tennessee, stores it in its tanks, and withdraws and uses it as required as a source of motive power for moving its interstate trains in that State and in others.
P. The allegations of the bill showing a heavier state tax burden upon railroads than upon common carriers by motor bus fall short of alleging a discrimination forbidden by the commerce clause or by the Fourteenth Amendment.
straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0288_0249_ZS.html   (403 words)

  
 NC&StL Preservation Society
Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad (NCandStL) engine number 576 was moved into place on September 13, 1953 as a gift from the RR to the citizens of Nashville.
Almost fifty years ago as a mere lad of eleven I sat in her cab and thought to myself "This is magnificent, what a shame to be sitting here dead." In my youthful naiveté, I thought 576 would be immortal.
We have been very interested in the stabilization of 576, and have made trips to Nashville to present ideas for her preservation to the Parks Board and others.
www.ncstl.com /576/editor.htm   (792 words)

  
 History Page - Railroads of South-central Tennessee
The Chattanooga Sub begins in Nashville, TN, at Radnor Yard, then extends roughly to the southeast to cross the Cumberland Mountains near Cowan, TN.
Nashville and Chattanooga RR chartered on December 11, 1845 and would be Tennessee's first railroad.
The NandC linked with the Western and Atlanta RR, the East Tennessee and Georgia RR, both at Chattanooga, the Memphis and Charleston RR, at Stevenson, Alabama, and the Louisville and Nashville RR at Nashville.
www.cafes.net /wayback/history.htm   (780 words)

  
 SRM Features: Western & Atlantic
The Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia was created by an act of the General Assembly of Georgia on December 21, 1836.
These legislative acts provided for a railroad to be surveyed and constructed from a point near present-day Chattanooga on the Tennessee River, to an eligible point on the southeastern bank of the Chattahoochee River in Georgia.
With so much railroad building going on in Georgia, the state of Tennessee recognized the need for land transportation and in 1845 authorized the construction of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad connecting the named cities.
www.srmduluth.org /Features/wanda.htm   (910 words)

  
 Franklin-Pearson House - History
The Franklin-Pearson House in Cowan, Tennessee has a colorful history that is closely intertwined with the building of a railroad between Nashville and Chattanooga and the founding of a university atop Sewanee Mountain.
Cowan quickly became an obvious choice for the railroad being that the tiny community was only 6 miles east of the coalmines, and the Crow Creek Gap southeast of Cowan was one of the lowest points on the entire Cumberland Plateau.
The house continued to serve as a home away from home for railroad workers; however, the growing importance of the town, the railroad and the university made the boarding house an obvious choice for travelers needing overnight accommodations.
www.franklinpearson.com /history.html   (1963 words)

  
 KCOJ - Marshall County, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is the approximate route of KY 80.
The county's other railroad, built in 1890, was the Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad, with stops at Benton and Hardin.
The railroad later became part of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, and then the Louisville and Nashville (now CSX Transportation).
www.kycourts.net /Counties/Marshall.asp?County=Marshall   (887 words)

  
 North Alabama Railroad Museum, Huntsville, Alabama
Since the depot served more than one railroad, that made it a union depot, possibly the smallest existing union depot in the country.
One line, what is now Norfolk Southern Railroad, ran between the cities of Memphis, Tennessee and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
When the depot was at it's most active period, this was the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, which later was acquired by L and N (and ultimately CSX Transportation).
www.suncompsvc.com /narm/restored.htm   (509 words)

  
 Paul Novarese and David Kudrav present... Train pictures!
The Mercury and Chase Railroad is operated by the North Alabama Railroad Museum in Huntsville, AL.
The railroad is operated over 5 miles of former Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad main line (then L&N and finally Seaboard Systems before being sold to the museum by the then-new CSX corp in 1985).
The North Alabama Railroad Museum (NARM) is a chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society.
www.trainweb.org /hotrail/mnc.html   (431 words)

  
 Surviving buildings and structures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Eighty-seven miles south of Nashville, between the Franklin County communities of Cowan and Sherwood, the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad bored a tunnel through Cumberland Mountain.
To accommodate the taller piggy-back and automobile rack shipments, the ceiling height was raised to twenty-one feet and the width increased by three feet.
Controlling interest in the NandC was acquired by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad in 1880, and the two roads merged in 1957.
www.mtsu.edu /~cwtech/railroad/tunnel_cowan.html   (939 words)

  
 Biographical Sketch of Robert Selph Henry
He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1911 and practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee from 1915 to 1921.
In 1921 he became assistant to the president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad and remained in that position until 1934.
From 1921 until 1934 he was director of public relations and later assistant to the vice president of the Nashville, Chattanoog and St. Louis Railway in Nashville.
www.rootsweb.com /~tnwayne/henry.htm   (993 words)

  
 Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company was chartered in Tennessee in 1845.
The Nashville and Chattanooga acquired the Nashville and Northwestern (Nashville to Hickman, Kentucky) in 1870, and the two roads consolidated in 1872.
The branch from Kingston to Rome was bought from the Rome Railroad in 1894.
www.railga.com /ncsl.html   (183 words)

  
 Essay: The Robertson Monument--Centennial Park Monolith
Smith, who suggested in a late-1893 speech to Nashville's Commercial Club that "a spectacular Tennessee Centennial be held to alleviate financial distress and to divert the attention of the people" from the long and severe depression that had engulfed America after the Panic of '93.
The Nashville Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company was formed and by the summer of 1895 was beginning to acquire financial support for the event.
John W. Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, served as president of the Centennial Company and chairman of the executive committee of the Exposition, and Major E. Lewis was named director general.
pages.prodigy.net /nhn.slate/nh00054.html   (1659 words)

  
 William Edmondson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Born around 1870 in the Hillsboro Road section of Nashville to "foreparents [George and Jane] who were Edmondson and Compton slaves," William Edmondson was one of six children reared by his mother after the death of their father.
In 1938, his sculpture was included in "Three Centuries of Art in the United States." On February 11, 1941, he was honored with a one-man show at the Nashville Art Gallery.
On February 7, 1951, he died and was buried at Mount Ararat Cemetery in Nashville.
www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/EDMONDS.HTM   (403 words)

  
 McKenzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The town of McKenzie was organized in 1867 when the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad completed its track and intersected with the Memphis and Ohio Railroad.
James Monroe McKenzie gave the property to the railroad company with the stipulation that his son George McKenzie would be given the position of station agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
The lure of the railroad drew many residents from the nearby established communities of Caladonia and McLemoresville.
gbmuseum.tn.org /mckenzie.htm   (340 words)

  
 Hooper was a fascinating man who led a fascinating life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His first job was with the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, the main railroad line that passed through Dickson.
During his career with the railroad, he dealt with unions, met with the media when a problem occurred and represented the president of the company without being in the chain of command.
Hooper was in immediate command of the disaster and his cool demeanor while managing the terrible situation is remembered as the highlight of his railroad career.
www.dicksonherald.com /news/stories/20031015/1015_hooper.shtml   (2017 words)

  
 11/20/2003 - Remembering The Chattanooga Stockyards - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
The Chattanooga Stockyards are one of the few that remain in operation inside the boundaries of a major city.
The founders were from two prominent Chattanooga families, the Fousts and Yarnells.
He had previously been superintendent of the Union Stockyards, which was located adjacent to the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad, near the present-day Southside Grill.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_43612.asp   (689 words)

  
 Master List - N Through R   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Intended to finish the Northern Pacific Railroad project before Henry Villard intervened with a hostile takeover.
Pittsburgh and Erie Railroad, Northern Division of the.
Railroad passenger terminal with horse and buggies in street.
members.aol.com /wwscompany/mastern.html   (3056 words)

  
 Kennesaw Historical Society
The railroad was the main source of supplies as evidenced by the old way bills recovered from the Depot.
Not only was the railroad delivering freight but it picked up milk to carry to Atlanta and cotton from the gins in Kennesaw and nearby areas.
Nashville, Chattanooga, and St Louis F Unit streaking northbound through Kennesaw in the 1950's.
www.mindspring.com /~robertcjones/khs/kennesaw20th/kennesaw20th.htm   (3470 words)

  
 5/29/2005 - Visionary Plan in 1971 to Save Union Station - Memories - Chattanoogan.com
In “The Next Station Stop Will Be Chattanooga,” author David Steinberg described how that the Union Depot originated from an 1857 agreement among the Western and Atlantic, Nashville and Chattanooga, and Memphis and Charleston Railroad to serve Chattanooga passengers.
The Chattanooga Times reported their plans in a July 18, 1971 front page story: “Group Envisions Culture Center for Depot Area.” The depot itself would be converted into a railroad history museum.
The Chattanooga Market at the First Tennessee Pavilion resembles the open-air market that was envisioned.
www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_67598.asp   (1233 words)

  
 Civil War Railroad Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Folmsbee, Stanley J. "The Origins of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad." East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 6 (1933): 81-95.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, 1845-1880: Preservation of a Railroad Landscape.
Herr, Kincaid A. Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963.
www.mtsu.edu /~cwtech/railroad/rrbib.html   (430 words)

  
 Blackburn's Reminiscences. Pt. 2 - Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
Our line of march was along the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad until we reached Chattanooga, and then we were allowed to move down to Rome, Georgia, where we had a much needed rest of two weeks which, with a few days at Woodburn, Kentucky, constituted our entire rest up to this time.
General G. Dodge with a large force of Federals came to Pulaski, Giles County, and remained a while and was ordered from there on to Chattanooga, and took all of the troops from that section with him, including Major Evans, and his command.
Now my journey was one of variations, sometimes on a railroad, sometimes on a wagon going my way, and sometimes afoot; but I continued with a firm set purpose to reach my command and finally succeeded in doing so, somewhere in the southern part of the State of South Carolina.
www.terrystexasrangers.org /histories/southwestern_historical_quarterly/blackburn2.html   (11121 words)

  
 Franklin County, Tennessee Genealogical Records Information
In 1854 Vernon K. Stephenson transformed the county when he built his Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad through Decherd, tunneling the Cumberland Plateau between Cowan and Sherwood and dipping into Alabama to join the Western and Atlantic into Georgia and the East Tennessee and Georgia to the northeast.
Thereafter Franklin County remained under Federal control, with the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad serving as the primary supply line for operation against Chattanooga and Atlanta.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad became the preferred passenger route between midwestern cities and economic development in Florida, spawning hotels and restaurants along its route.
www.mytennesseegenealogy.com /tn_county/fr.htm   (1308 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway: History and Steam Locomotives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Railroad buffs, historians, and casual readers alike will be delighted by the reappearance in print of Richard E. Prince's Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway.
Originally published in 1967, its reputation as the foremost work on this railroad is still untarnished after more than 30 years.
Richard E. Prince was born in 1920 and was raised in Norfolk, Virginia.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0253339278   (270 words)

  
 New Page 1
In 1876, John Oman moved his family from Scotland to Nashville, Tennessee and started a business concentrating on cut stone and masonry work until 1881.
In 1881, the company was awarded its first bridge contract for the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad.
That bridge was the beginning of Oman Construction Company, which grew with the country, building bridges, embankments, tunnels and railroad facilities.
www.omanco.com /aboutus.html   (314 words)

  
 Towering Pine Sleeper #3467   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In addition to the LandN's order two connecting railroads the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad placed an order for four sleepers, and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad purchased 3 sleepers.
The Towering Pine and other new sleepers were delivered in the LandN's post war blue sides, gray roof, and gold script lettering paint scheme, which was adopted by the railroad in about 1946.
The new sleepers were used to replace aging heavy weight sleepers on the Humming Bird, Georgian, and Pan American.
www.historicrailpark.com /page29.html   (278 words)

  
 Kennesaw Historical Society
Videos will include a 1962 Louisville and Nashville film on the refurbishment of the General, as well as footage of the 1962 centennial visit of the General to Kennesaw (running under it’s own power), and the 1972 enshrining of the General in the (then) Big Shanty Museum.
The objective of the raid was to steam the train to Chattanooga, burning bridges, tearing up track, and cutting telegraph wires along the way.
The raid entered into legend because the conductor of the train, William A. Fuller, and Western and Atlantic RR Superintendent of Motive Power Anthony Murphy pursued the stolen train for 87 miles, by foot, hand car, and three different locomotives, until the train was finally abandoned two miles north of Ringgold, Georgia.
www.mindspring.com /~robertcjones/khs/khs.htm   (1973 words)

  
 Index: The City by the Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 33n, 34, 34n, 35, 35n, 37, 40, 66, 67, 72, 97, 99n, 123, 151, 168, 169, 179, 225, 235, 237, 270, 272n, 326, 333, 374, 410, 414, 436
Nashville and Goodlettsville Turnpike, Davidson County, Tenn., 215
Nashville Tennessean, 87, 145, 272n, 275, 276, 278, 285, 287, 288, 289, 290, 295, 296, 298, 307, 389, 398
www.tn-elderlaw.com /cityindex.html   (4027 words)

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