Need a Holiday or Hostess Gift?
The Historical Commission Has It!
Let the Historical Commission help you with your holiday shopping. Items for sale include Nashville Architecture: A Guide to the City ($29.95), Phil Ponder's "Sunnyside" ornaments ($6), and copies of historic maps of Nashville (prices vary, call ahead to see what's available).
Purchases made at the Historical Commission or online through the Metropolitan Historical Commission Foundation support the MHC Foundation and its mission to raise funds for, engage in, and support the activities of Metro Historical Commission.
 Nashville Architecture: A Guide to the City ($29.95)
Boy Scouts Lead Efforts to Clean Up Cemetery
On Saturday, November 7, local Boy Scout Mitch Jones led a group of volunteers in cleaning up the historic Cane Ridge Cemetery. Volunteers from Mitch's scout troop and the Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church joined archaeologist Dan Allen and a group of Master Gardeners, led by Bob Mather, in cleaning and resetting gravestones, clearing brush, killing poison ivy, and replacing dilapidated fencing.
The Cane
Ridge Cemetery is located at 14311 Old Hickory Boulevard in Antioch. It is an
early 19th-century community cemetery located next to the Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Edwin Austin and Thomas Boaz donated the land for a meeting house and cemetery to the Baptists of the Cane Ridge area of Davidson County in 1826; shortly thereafter, the congregation built a church on the property. Around 1837, the Cumberland Presbyterians acquired the building and held services there until a fire destroyed it in 1859. The current church building was completed later that same year. The cemetery is located just southwest of the church. Austin and Boaz as well as several Revolutionary War veterans are buried in the cemetery.
The cemetery clean-up day was a tremendous help to the small Cane Ridge Cumberland Presbyterian Church congregation. Due to limited resources for the perpetual care of the cemetery, the church had reached out to the Historical Commission for assistance. In turn, the Historical Commission contacted the Boy Scouts due to the great work scouts have done for the City Cemetery. Dan Allen and Bob Mather were kind enough to help out and guide the volunteers in the proper techniques of cemetery maintenance. Mitch Jones completed the work day as part of his Eagle Scout badge requirements. Thank you, Mitch and volunteers, for your hard work!
Preserving Nashville's Historic Music Row
An update from the Metro Planning Department:
Community input on a design plan for the Music Row area continued November 10, as planners and community members discussed prioritizing goals for Music Row's future. That's part of the development of a design plan which will guide the Planning Department’s and the Planning Commission’s actions on future development, and that plan will be based on community members’ vision and goals for the area.
Mark your calendar for the next two community meetings:
These meetings are public, and provide an opportunity to share your thoughts on Music Row's future.
December 2: Refining
January 11: Draft Plan
Meetings will be held from 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. in the community room at the Midtown Hills police precinct, 1443 12th Avenue South.
Visit the Planning Department's Music Row Community Meetings page to learn more about the design plan process and catch up on discussions/surveys conducted to date.
Learn more about Music Row's history by visiting Telling Music Row's Stories. You will be amazed by the amount of history uncovered by this incredible research project led by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Music Industry Coalition.
Holiday Events at Two Rivers Mansion
The GFWC
Stones River Woman’s Club is once again sponsoring its annual Open House at Two
Rivers Mansion,
located at 3130 McGavock Pike in Donelson. The
mansion has been the meeting place for the GFWC Stones River Woman’s Club since
1977; the club has donated more than $83,000 toward restoration and
redecoration projects in the mansion. The Christmas Open House is the club’s major
fundraiser. Proceeds will support many charities in our community.
The Open
House features a bake sale and area vendors serving up a variety of offerings
for Christmas shopping and decorating. Open House hours are from 10 a.m. until
4 p.m. on Saturday, December 5th, and from 12:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 6th. Santa Claus will also be making appearances
both days for those young and young at heart.
Admission
to the Open House is $5 at the door; children under 12 are free. Complimentary refreshments will be
served. The mansion will be decorated
for Christmas by local florists and the ladies of Stones River Woman’s Club.
Additionally, Metro Parks and the Friends of Two Rivers Mansion will open the house for Historic Holiday Tours in December. Docents in period costumes will offer tours as scheduled:
- Thursday - Saturday, December 10-12, 4:00 until 8:00 p.m.
- Sunday, December 13, 1:00 until 5:00 p.m.
- Thursday - Saturday, December 17-19, 4:00 until 8:00 p.m.
- Sunday, December 20, 1:00 until 5:00 p.m.
Tours are $10 for adults, $5 for children, and free for Friends members.
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