Greenwood Park (Tennessee)

Greenwood Park was an important park and recreation area for the African American Community in Nashville, Tennessee with amenities and amusements. The park was created by Preston Tayloy, a wealthy minister and undertaker. It was the home of a large annual fair event hoated by the Tennessee Colored Fair Association.[1][2] It was located on Lebanon Pike and served by electric streetcars.[3] The 1919 Cyclopedia of the Colored Race described the park as 40 acres of hills and dales.[3] The park had a swimming pool and baseball diamond.

The park was at the end of the Fairfield Street trolley line and had an entrance off Lebanon Road. Greenwood cemetery and rail lines are in the area today. The Preston Taylor Homes on Clifton Avenue in Nashville are named for him. Taylor married retired singer Georgia Gordon Taylor and was the minister of Lee Avenue Christian Disciples of Christ Church where she assisted. [4] Their only child, Preston G. Taylor (1890-91) died age seven months.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Tennessee Colored Fair Association advertisement :: Trials and Triumphs". digital.mtsu.edu.
  2. ↑ "Address Delivered by Hon. Frederick Douglass, at the Third Annual Fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association".
  3. 1 2 Richardson, Clement (19 January 2018). "The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race". National publishing Company, Incorporated – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Haley & Washington 1895, p. 222.
  5. ↑ Bragg, Emma W. "Georgia Gordon Taylor (1855-1913)". Tennessee State University. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
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