Roger Williams University

Roger Williams University is a Tennessee historical marker in opposite Social-Religious Bldg., Davidson County.

Davidson Co, Nashville, Edgehill Ave. looking up quadrangle of Peabody College, or 21st Ave. South, just north of Village at Vanderbilt, opposite Social-Religious Bldg.

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The Nashville Institute, renamed Roger Williams University, was located on a 28 acre campus next to Hillsboro Pike from 1874 to 1905. It was the largest of the Baptist schools for African-Americans, influencing many important educators and leaders. The main building, which was destroyed by two fires in 1905, stood at the top of the knoll.

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1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Battlefields In Front Of Nashville. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Battle-field, Nashville, Tenn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1901 · Nashville (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Roger Williams University

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