Nashville Nine List Includes Riverfront Fort

A reconstruction of Nashville’s founding settlement is on a new list of the city’s endangered historic sites.

Historic Nashville, Inc released its second annual “Nashville Nine” list Thursday. It includes Fort Nashborough, located on the banks of the Cumberland River, downtown. The present fort was built in the 1920s to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary. It operated for several decades as a living history museum, complete with costumed docents and educational programs. Current plans to redevelop the river call for dismantling and relocating the structures to another location in Riverfront Park. The historic preservation group contends the move would further damage the structures, which they say are already in disrepair.

This year’s list of endangered sites also includes a blacksmith shop, a townhouse that once served as the local headquarters for a Jewish community group, and a cluster of buildings near the Cumberland River built in the 1890s to support of a system of locks and dams that the Army Corps of Engineers began but never finished.