Shortly after the Civil War, a former Confederate gun factory was converted into a school for the freed African-American population living in Nashville. By 1883, Meigs School, as it was originally known, became Nashville’s first African-American…

The Hobson family moved from Virginia to East Nashville in 1807 and established a home on a track of land which stretched from the Cumberland River to Gallatin Pike. The house stands on 814 Woodland Street. In his will, William Hobson left one-third…