Richland Creek Bridge

Richland Creek Bridge is a Tennessee historical marker in Belle Meade, Davidson County.

Northeast corner of Jackson Boulevard and Deer Park Drive, Belle Meade, Tennessee

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In 1906 O. C. Simonds and Co. of Chicago designed this graceful 50-ft concrete arch, stone-faced, closed spandrel bridge over Richland Creek as the entry to a new 250-acre residential subdivision named Belle Meade Park. Jackson Boulevard is named after the Harding-Jackson family, which had owned the earlier Belle Meade Plantation. The entry helped to retain the natural and picturesque beauty of the plantation's old deer park.

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1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Battlefields In Front Of Nashville. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Greenbrier, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1903 · Nashville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1932 · Nashville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Richland Creek Bridge

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