Nashville is developing a new master plan for Fort Negley, one of the city’s most significant and unique historical landmarks.
Bass Street was home to Nashville’s first post-Emancipation Black neighborhood. Descendants want to keep its memory alive
The Bass Street neighborhood was first settled by some of the formerly enslaved people who had helped build Fort Negley and defend it against the Confederacy. Today, Bass Street is barely a street at all, a stretch of just a thousand feet or so.
Preserving Fort Negley’s past while planning for its future
Former Bass Street residents and their descendants are fighting to reclaim the narrative of the neighborhood as the city develops a new master plan for Fort Negley.
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