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69000179 [1] Added to NRHP. December 30, 1969. Travellers Rest, also known as Golgotha, [2] is a former plantation and historic plantation house, located in Nashville, Tennessee. The first owner of the site was John Overton in 1796, who built the first family home in 1799. [2] For many years this plantation was worked and maintained by enslaved ...
Maxwell House Hotel. The Maxwell House Hotel was a major hotel in downtown Nashville. Because of its stature, seven US Presidents and other prominent guests stayed there over the years. It was built by Colonel John Overton Jr. and named for his wife, Harriet (Maxwell) Overton. The architect was Isaiah Rogers.
86002794. Added to NRHP. 1986. Standing Stone State Park is a state park in Overton County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The park consists of 855 acres (3.46 km 2) along the shoreline of the man-made 69-acre (0.28 km 2) Standing Stone Lake. The 11,000-acre (45 km 2) Standing Stone State Forest surrounds the park. [1]
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville) / 36.15000°N 86.73389°W / 36.15000; -86.73389. Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre (83 ha) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
Joseph Paul Overton (4 January 1960 – 30 June 2003) was an American political scientist who served as the senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. [2] [3] He is best known for his work in the mid-1990s developing an idea since known as the Overton window .
112 Harris Hollow Rd. 36°16′29″N 85°45′21″W. / 36.2746°N 85.7559°W / 36.2746; -85.7559 ( Carverdale Farms) Granville. Farm first settled in 1830 by Joseph Williamson and family in the small community of Liberty just east of Granville. Historic home built in 1850 by Andrew Jackson Vantrease.
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [3] [4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and the ...
Charles Dickinson (December 20, 1780 – May 30, 1806) was an American attorney, and a famous duelist. An expert marksman, Dickinson died from injuries sustained in a duel with Andrew Jackson, who later became President of the United States. Dickinson was shot in the chest by the future president due to a protracted disagreement which ...