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This week in Nashville history: Turning on the waterworks
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
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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)
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This week in Nashville history: Run out of town on a rail
Let’s wind up Marmaduke Morton once more and let him spin a yarn. Eighty years ago this week, the Nashville Banner‘s longtime managing editor published part six in his 12-part series on “The Colorful Eighties in Nashville,” recalling the city … Continue reading
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Tagged Adair Lyon Childress (1873-1948), Adrian VanSinderen Lindsley Jr. (1847-1900), Alfred Jackson (ca. 1812–1901), Andrew Jackson Jr. (1808-1865), Edmund W. Cole (1827-1899), James Erwin Caldwell Sr. (1854-19__), James Knox Polk (1795-1849), Jere Baxter (1852-1904), Marmaduke Beckwith Morton (1859-1943), Michael J.C. Wrenne (1847-1915), Nashville Banner, Obed O. Pickard Sr. (1874-1954), Peter P. Pickard (1845-1929), public transport, Volney James (1851-after 1930), William H. Bumpus (1843-1926)
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