Afterlives of Fort Negley with Clelie Cottle Peacock

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They Came Down from the Hill and Built a Church: Artifacts from the Bass Street Baptist Church Historic Site at Fort Negley
Clelie Cottle-Peacock, Historical Archaeologist and Co-director of MTSU’s Bass Street Community Archaeology Project

Join us in person at the Fort Negley Visitors Center or virtually via Zoom.

In celebration of the launch of the Builders and Defenders Database Vanderbilt University, Friends of Fort Negley Park, and Metro Parks present: Afterlives of Fort Negley

This series of talks focuses on the histories of Fort Negley from Reconstruction to the present day. Come hear from local community experts just some of what Fort Negley’s builders and defenders made possible, and why this history is more relevant than ever.

This lecture series and the Builders and Defenders Database made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service.