Nolensville Road from south of Burkitt Road to Old Hickory Boulevard includes reconstruction and widening for approximately 4.4 miles. The proposed improvements are intended to address congestion, improve safety, and accommodate growth in this rapidly developing area.
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Nashville’s 2010 floodPhoto: Eric England
The flash flooding around Nashville late last month didn’t leave as strong an impression as the historic widespread flooding of May 2010. There were fewer indelible images of submerged landmarks, fewer national news hits.
But in some areas of the city, the deluge in 2021 was even worse than 2010, and some people are still trying to dig out.
At Lesby and Roberto’s home along Nolensville Road, the rainwater flowed “like a river,” Roberto remembers. The couple’s home which they rent and share with Lesby’s sister, brother-in-law and three kids between the two couples sits in a low-lying area between the busy South Nashville thoroughfare and a small tributary of Sevenmile Creek. Water from the nearby stream gushed into their home; weeks later, mud still cakes the floor, kitchen tiles buckled from the rising water. Roberto points out shopping carts and other debris left beneath a bridge by the storm, worried th
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William Edmondson, Lake Providence and Nashville s Forgotten History Thinking about the historically Black community s disappearance from Nashvilleâs collective memory Tweet
William EdmondsonPhoto: Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Long story short, William Edmondson was one of the most important artists to come out of Nashville. Born in 1876 to sharecroppers on the Compton farm (which was at the corner of Hillsboro and Harding), Edmondson and his mother and many of his brothers and sisters moved to Edgehill, where William took up sculpting. He was the first African American artist to have a solo show at MoMA. And he made a lot of headstones, many of which are still standing in Nashville and the surrounding areaâs African American cemeteries.