Archives staff member Morgan recently completed a project of transcribing the Nashville City Board of Health Minutes from 1900-1908. From reading the minutes, she was able to take a peek into Nashville’s past and see how the city dealt with a smallpox outbreak over 100 years ago.
One of Metro Archives’ ongoing projects is the Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database. Learn more about what it includes and how to use it in our latest post.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of Nashville's oldest continuously-operated public cemetery - the Nashville City Cemetery. Nestled quaintly on the northeast side of Fort Negley and just off 4th Ave S, the cemetery might seem like only a quiet piece of Nashville's history, with only the graves of many Nashvillians. But if it could speak, it would have many interesting anecdotes to tell.
Bookstores are always popular during the holidays, especially local favorites like Parnassus and Elder's Bookstore. Curious about Nashville’s bookstore history? Intern Sapphire has you covered.
Nashville has no shortage of feuds and strange murders—and here’s another just in time for Halloween: a business rivalry gone wrong, from our newly indexed Criminal Court Case Files.
During this episode, Metropolitan Archivist Ken Fieth welcomes Mark Thompson for a discussion in commemoration of the United States' entry into World War I, just over one hundred years ago. Mark is a living history interpreter and student of America's military and wars.
