Topics for Research

Pre-Historic Bellevue

Mastodons

Bellevue History – Early History

Native Americans

hunting grounds for the Cherokee and the Creek

conflicts between Native Americans and the first white settlers in Tennessee

images of early settlers in Nashville, Bellevue, and Middle Tennessee

images of early wildlife in Middle Tennessee: buffalo, bear, colorful parakeets, Passenger Pigeons, fish, beaver, muskrat, mink, otter…

Abraham DeMoss – "Belle Vue"

John Davis – "Devon Farm"

Devon Farm - bred Devon cattle

William Newsom

Newsom mills and stone quarry – limestone

Bellevue experienced no Civil War battles or skirmishes (troops did maneuver here), but almost every family gave men to the war

Harpeth River

Native Americans

Railroad

Wildlife

Recreation today

Flood(s)

Railroad

Runs through Bellevue and Newsom Station

Commuter train ran between Union Station in Nashville and Waverly, TN

Rebuilding and repairing the railroad after the Civil War – Bellevue’s station was built after the Civil War

Locomotives burned wood

Newsom Station – watering station – Harpeth River

1920s – Dickson-Waverly Accomodation

Red Caboose

Town of Bellevue / City of Nashville / Middle Tennessee

Farming / farms

History

Important figures

Loveless

music industry

Tennessee Titans in Bellevue

Night Spots

Post Office

Stores

Warner Park

3000 acres

Underpass is the gateway to the park

"Green jewel"

Nature

Recreation

Old growth forest

Belle Meade plantation

Slave cemetery

Trees – sugar maple, tulip poplar (state tree), cedar, beech

Plants -

Animals – owl, deer, flying squirrel, snakes, birds

Insects -

Farm house

WPA – built the stone walls

Native Americans