Nashville Pikes Volume Six: 150 Years Along Gallatin and Vaughn Pikes

Ridley Wills II

A History of the City of Belle Meade, Tennessee

Belle Meade: A Legacy of Land, Lives, and Love

Ridley Wills

Disastrous Deaths is a rich and colorful exploration of the darker side of the human heart. The Emotions that drive individuals to murder-rage, anger, fear, treachery and sex-are examined in a finely crafted historical account offering first-hand insights into characters fatally rooted in the past. Despite some well-known cases, you'll keep turning the pages. A definite must read and highly recommended. - Kenneth Fith, Metro Nashville Archivist; From the cover of Disastrous Deaths; From the Dueling Grounds on Red River to Murder on Elm Hill Pike.

Disastrous Deaths: From the Dueling Grounds on Rd River to Murder on ELM Hill Pike

History

Wills, II, Ridley

Americas

All history begins as local history, and Ridley Will's detailed examination of the history and sites along the Franklin and Granny White Pikes brings the local history of Nashville to vibrant life. Through profiles of churches, Civil War sites, public institutions, schools, racetracks, railroads and even a zoo and hunt club -as well as more than 75 houses --Wills offers more than a valuable reference work. He brings to life such notables as Ambrose Bierce, Frank Andrews, Maggie Vaulx, Kate Thomson Kirkland, Rogers Caldwell, "Spot" McCarthy, David Lipscomb, Luke Lea, and Lucinda "Granny" White.

Nashville Pikes Vol. 1: 150 Years Along Franklin Pike and Granny White Pike

Nashville Pikes, Volume 2: 150 Years Along the Hillsboro Pike

Ridley's Willls' 3rd volume in his series of books on Nashville Pikes deals with 106 historic sites on or near the Harding Turnpike. After the Nashville Golf and Country Club opened on the Harding Pike in 1902, members built expensive homes near the country club. Soon, Harding Pike was the home of more prominent Nashvillains that any other pike could boost. Many Nashvillians know that, in about 1913, Percy Warner moved from Renraw, his elaborate estate on the Gallatin Pike, to Royal Oaks on Harding Pike. Fewer people know where his brothers, Edwin and Joseph, lived. This fascinating book tells where their homes were. A few years later, industrialist E. L. Hampton bought property on today's Lynwood boulevard and established a compound there where he, and his sons-in-law, Brownlee Currey, Eben Wortham, and Peck Owen all had handsome homes. Few Nashvilliana know that, in 1865, there was a vast U. S. Army demobilization camp that spread from Charlotte Pike east to Harding Pike, or tha

Nashville Pikes Volume Three: 150 Years Along Harding Pike

This 4th volume in a series of books on historic sites in Davidson County provides rich histories of prominent early Nashville families, including the Robertsons, Bosleys, Cockrills and Stumps, who lived on big plantations along the Charlotte Pike. Ridley also writes about the Nashville Land Improvement Company that developed a large area of farmland in today's West Nashville into New Town in the late 1880s and early 1890s. New Town was a combination of middle income homes near Charlotte and commercial sites along the south bank of the Cumberland River. He also writes about the impact the move of the State penitentiary to Cockrill Bend in 1898 had on West Nashville and about the development of Tennessee A &amp; I and Fisk Universities. In researching the history of Fisk, Ridley realized that there are most historic sites with a few block of the Fisk campus than exist anywhere else in the county. He writes about most of them.

Nashville Pikes, Volume Four: 150 Years Along Charlotte. Clifton, and Hydes Ferry Pikes

Heritage, Highballs, and Hijinks ( Colorful Characters I Have Known ) ( Nashville, Tn )

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