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State: Tennessee
Historical haunted places
Historic place
Nashville, TN
Belle Meade developed as a plantation and thoroughbred operation whose wealth depended on enslaved labor before the Civil War and paid labor afterward.
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Historic place
Nashville, TN
Belmont Mansion was the elaborate nineteenth-century home of Adelicia Acklen and later became part of a women's school and the campus now occupied by Belmont University.
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Historic place
Chattanooga, TN
Established by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas in December 1863 and designated a national cemetery in 1867, the landscape holds Union dead, later veterans, German prisoners of war, major monuments, and a monumental entrance arch.
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Historic place
Chattanooga, TN
Established in 1890, the military park preserves landscapes associated with the 1863 Chickamauga and Chattanooga campaigns as well as Indigenous history, veterans' commemoration, military roads, monuments, and later preservation.
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Historic place
Memphis, TN
Founded in 1852 as part of the rural cemetery movement, Elmwood is an active cemetery, arboretum, bird sanctuary, and National Register property whose records reflect more than a century and a half of Memphis history.
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Historic place
Memphis, TN
Built in 1852 and later home to the Neely and Mallory family, the house preserves unusually complete interiors and furnishings and has operated as a city-owned museum under MoSH since 1987.
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Historic place
Memphis, TN
A Grand Opera House opened on the site in 1890, was later renamed the Orpheum, and burned in 1923; the present theater opened in 1928 and was eventually saved from demolition.
Legend
Historic place
Nashville, TN
Opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle, the Ryman later became a celebrated performance hall and the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974.
Legend
Historic place
Chattanooga, TN
The Read House traces its hotel lineage to 1872, while the present Georgian-style building opened in 1926 and reflects Chattanooga's railroad, convention, travel, preservation, and downtown history.
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Haunted towns and cities
Haunted town
Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga developed within Cherokee homelands at a Tennessee River crossroads through forced removal, railroads, Civil War campaigns, emancipation, industry, segregation, environmental repair, tourism, and preservation.
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Haunted town
Memphis, TN
Memphis developed on Indigenous homelands above the Mississippi River through cotton and the domestic slave trade, transportation, epidemics, emancipation, migration, music, civil rights activism, and urban change.
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Haunted town
Nashville, TN
Nashville developed on the Cumberland River through Indigenous history, settlement, slavery and emancipation, state government, education, publishing, and music industries.
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