Nashville early history, 1954.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

The students' writings were typed, mimeographed, and bound together in a wooden handcrafted binder. For preservation purposes, the binder was removed, but is still retained separately as a part of this collection.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Short writings by students of Miss Irene Spivey's sixth grade class at Hattie Cotton Elementary School in 1954 concerning Nashville history, and field trips taken to various sites in and near Nashville in 1953. Writings range in length from a paragraph to a page. Subjects include Kasper Mansker, long hunters, Indians, agriculture and manufacturing, churches, commerce, and other topics, with emphasis on early Nashville settlement prior to 1800. Sites visited include museums, historic sites, old buildings, churches, cemeteries, the Tennessee Supreme Court, the Hermitage, and the inauguration of Governor Frank Clement.

Cite as: "Nashville Early History" by Miss Irene Spivey's 6th grade class at Hattie Cotton Elementary School, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code).

Source of acquisition unknown;,Acc. RT-100.

Hattie Cotton Elementary School was built on West Greenwood Avenue in 1950, becoming the first school for white children west of Gallatin Pike. It was built at the request of residents living between Gallatin Pike and McFerrin Avenue, who were concerned about their children crossing busy Gallatin Pike. The school was named for Miss Hattie Reader Cotton, a teacher in Nashville public schools for 49 years. In the early morning hours on Sept. 10, 1957, the school was bombed to protest the enrollment of an African-American girl in the first grade. Classes resumed within a week, though the damaged portion of the building was not reopenend until January 1958.

In English.

Created by Miss Irene Spivey's 6th grade class in 1954.

Process;,2006;,Linda Barnickel;,removed from Schools Ephemera Subject Files.

No further accruals are expected.