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LedgerDAVIDSON • WILLIAMSON • RUTHERFORD • CHEATHAM WILSON SUMNER• ROBERTSON • MAURY • DICKSON • MONTGOMERY FORMERLY WESTVIEW SINCE 1978 Nashville history not easily recreated Second Avenue rebuild already begun after devastating bombing Story by Hollie Deese begins on page 2 Photo by Michelle Morrow |The Ledger ern Express, Inc, CAREER CORNER Hampshire Insurance Company, Western Express, Inc, Def Atty(s): John W Barringer, 08/30/2010, 10C3341 October 8 - 14, 2010 Patricia McClarren vs Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Law & GovernmentPltf(s): James T Collins, Def(s): Star Insurance Company, Westwood Church Of Christ, Def Work not a good PublicAtty(s): David John Deming, 08/30/2010, 10C3343 Pltf(s): James A Richard Dicaire vs Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark Investment LLC, Records Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Cbs Personnel Holdings Inc, Cbs Personnel place for politics 08/26/2010, 10C3303 Services LLC, Kilgore Group Inc Collectively Staffmark, Staffmark James T Collins vs Rogers Group Inc, Investment LLC, Def Atty(s): Stephen B Morton, 08/26/2010, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Rogers Group Inc, Def Atty(s): Heather E Hardt, 08/26/2010,inside 10C3308 & online James A Wells vs Jenco Construction Inc, Sure, you have strong Wells, Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): JencoTNLedger.com Construction Inc,Pltf(s): Def Atty(s): Judy R Lawson, Jennifer S White, 08/25/2010, 10C3282 Jessica Grimwood vs Intrepid USA Healthcare Services, opinions you’re sure are RealtyPltf(s): JessicaCheck Grimwood, ....................................... Pltf Atty(s): n/a, Def(s): Intrepid USA 3 CommunityHealthcare Services, Calendar Def Atty(s): Clifford .......................... Wilson, 08/27/2010, 4 going to save the country. Judy R Lawson vs Nursing & Oneida, NewsmakersPltf Atty(s): David ....................................... Harold Dunaway, Def(s): Nursing & Oneida, Def 6 Public Records ............................... 8-9 Leave them in your car. Jordan Sanders vs Dillons Welding Inc and Employers, P4 Public NoticesPltf(s): Jordan Sanders,and Pltf Atty(s): Donald D Zuccarello, Def(s): Foreclosures .................... 12-13, 20-29 Marketplace .......................................31 Page 2 www.TNLedger.com JANUARY 22-28, 2021 Photo by Michelle Morrow |The Ledger Tim Walker, executive director of the Metro Historical Commission, surveys the damage done on Second Avenue N. with Patrick McIntyre and Commission staff. BRINGING SECOND AVE. BACK FROM THE BLAST Suicide bombing nearly destroyed city’s bridge to steamboat era By Hollie Deese feet deep and run street face to street face. The lower levels were used to load or unload After Tim Walker realized no one was killed in goods directly to and from boats moored on the the Christmas morning suicide bombing on Second banks of the Cumberland River. Goods arriving by Avenue, his mind turned to the history the city boat would be sold on Market Street or transported might have lost, a history he has worked decades to to other locations. preserve amid the cranes and congestion that seem “They are there as witnesses,” Walker says of the to dominate Downtown Nashville. buildings. “They bear witness to that early history. “That whole street is so important because it’s And it’s dear to my heart because it’s where this part of the original city layout,” says Walker, office, our commission, was created in 1966. executive director of the Metro Historical “And it’s where so much effort was spent in our Commission. “Those buildings, a couple of them, early years in the late 60s and especially in the 70s were built pre-Civil War in 1860. Most of the rest, and early 80s, trying to promote people going back although some are early 20th century, the majority downtown when it was dead at that time.” of the buildings really date to the 1870s to 1890. Now Walker can be a witness for the buildings “Some were built when steamboats were still a that were damaged or destroyed in the bombing major form of moving goods into and out of cities. as he helps ensure they are restored in a way that So they represent our city’s early development and honors their Victorian architecture, their history history.” downtown and their place in shaping Nashville The Second Avenue Commercial District, listed on Tim Walker, executive director of the Metro Historical from the very beginning. the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, Commission, documents the carnage. “Nashville, as a growing city, needed these consists of Second Avenue North between Brandon buildings were the first thing they saw,” says historian buildings to store the goods that were brought here and Broadway. Buildings are noted for their Victorian by ship before they went to market,” Ewing explains. Italianate style, brickwork, masonry and cornice work. and ninth generation Nashvillian David Ewing. Second Avenue is also the deepest block “And so these 19th century warehouses have been a “This was Nashville’s front door in the 19th key part of the city for almost 150 years. century, and when people and goods came to the city downtown - there is no alley that runs between First and Second, so the buildings are about 200 of Nashville by boat on the Cumberland River, these DAMAGE >> PAGE 15 JANUARY 22-28, 2021 www.TNLedger.com Page 3 More than selling houses Help is available Bombing victims assistance How to make the latest way Realtors help 2021 budgeting as Each month the Greater Nashville painless as possible Realtors provide the Budgeting is a pain. But what’s more sales data refl ecting painful is a bill you can’t easily pay, the activity in the area, debt that costs a fortune or not having a valuable tool for enough money to retire. 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