Books: Surveys of Nashville History


Important surveys of Nashville history include:


  • Putnam's History of Middle Tennessee, 1859

  • Clayton's History of Davidson County, 1880

  • Wooldridge's History of Nashville, Tenn., 1890

  • McRaven's Nashville: "Athens of the South", 1949

  • Burt's Nashville, Its Life and Times, 1959

  • Crabb's Nashville: Personality of a City, 1960

  • Egerton's Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980, 1979

  • Burns' Davidson County, 1989

  • Summerville's Southern Epic: Nashville Through Two Hundred Years, 1996


    Visit the Nashville Public Library and check on the status of these and other books.




    Last Update: 10/31/2006