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Cemetery: Hermitage
Springs burial ground
Other: Historic
John Donelson farm / 1800's slave cemetery
Sign: No
Street: Southfork Drive
City:
Nashville
Township: Old Hickory
County: Davidson
State: TN
Nation: USA
Zip:
37076
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long_ew: W
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Status: Abandoned
Size: Large
Directions: From I-40 to Old Hickory Blvd,
North to Southfork Drive -left on Southfork to the end of the street -
through brick columns then right on dirt road to the end of it. No
trespassing signs and orange construction barrier fence marks entrance
to the road leading the burial ground
Type:
Road-public
Location: Urban
Terrain: Level
Watersource: Yes
Features:
Property: Private
Access:
Permission-required
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: Prehistoric Native American & 1840's
& 1850's slave burials
Gravestones:
Oldest: Prehistoric
through the 1850's
Newest: probably 1850's
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: Yes
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: No
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: Yes
Buildings: No
Cement: Unsure
Granite: Unsure
Marble: Unsure
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others: Unsure
Wood: Unsure
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: No
Photos: No
Religious: No
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: No
Condition: Cemetery destroyed
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: No
Toppled: No
Disintegrating: No
Buried: Unsure
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover:
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Problem-Seasonal
Problem1:
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Private
Use:
Commercial
Bordering: Residential
Change: Unknown
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Yes
Habitat: Yes
Contacted:
Surnames:
Donelson slaves / exact names unknown
Other_Information:
This cemetery was found recently by archaeologists who are terminating
a prehistoric Native American burial ground on the property that once
belonged to the Col. John Donelson family. The site is located behind
the Southfork Subdivision off of Old Hickory Blvd. in Old Hickory
Tennessee. The Hermitage Golf Course bounds the site on the west
side. Archaeologists have detetrmined that the slave burials now
currently totalling about twenty five that date from the 1840's through
the 1850's based on artifactual evidence. Archaeologists expect to find
many more. The skeletal remains indicate that they are in fact African
American in origin. The site is being cleared for Condominium
development under a court order issued by the Davidson County Chancery
Court. The site originally contained over 330 sets of prehistoric
Native American remains which have been removed and reburied on the
same property. The slave burials were placed in among the Native
American remains in uniformly dug grave shafts. The African America
Support:
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Name:
Patrick Cummins
Email: p_bctsalagi@aol.com
Date:
August 8, 2006
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