Rebroadcast: Preserving Fort Negley’s past while planning for its future

This Is Nashville · Jun 20, 2022 · 50m

The This Is Nashville team is off for Juneteenth. We are rebroadcasting our episode about Fort Negley, which originally aired on April 4.

Nashville is developing a new master plan for Fort Negley, one of the city’s most significant and unique historical landmarks.

The fort was built during the Civil War by conscripted free Black men and women for the Union Army. The U.S. Colored Troops who defended Fort Negley during the war remained and settled Nashville’s first post-Emancipation Black neighborhood at the base of the hill. The Bass Street neighborhood was a thriving area until it was…