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Tag Archives: Andrew W. Wills (1841-1918)

This week in Nashville history: Turning on the waterworks

Posted on 1 November 2010 by Tom

This week in 1930, the Nashville Banner‘s resident sage Marmaduke Morton offered up another installment of his memoir about life in Nashville 50 years earlier. The seventh column in his series “The Colorful Eighties in Nashville” starts off with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Nashville history - general | Tagged Andrew Joseph Thuss (1866-1956), Andrew W. Wills (1841-1918), Charles Thurman (1854-?), David A. Fox, David R. Kinnaird (1850-after 1930), James Ambrose Cayce Jr. (1873-?1941), James Davis Porter Jr. (1828-1912), Lockeland Springs, Marmaduke Beckwith Morton (1859-1943), Nashville Banner, Otto Burchartz Giers (1858-1940), Percy Kinnaird (1851-after 1930), public infrastructure, Ronald C. 'Ron' Taylor, Vinet Donelson (1854-1913), Volney James (1851-after 1930), William Hicks Jackson (1835-1903) | 2 Comments
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