Holy Rosary Cathedral

Holy Rosary Cathedral is a Tennessee historical marker in on northeast slope of Capitol Hill, Davidson County.

Davidson Co, in Nashville, on northeast slope of Capitol Hill

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Near here in 1820 the first Catholic Church in Tennessee was built by Irish Catholic workers then building a bridge over Cumberland River. In 1830 a brick structure known as Holy Rosary Cathedral succeeded the frame building. Here Bishop R. P. Miles, first Bishop of Tennessee was installed Oct. 15, 1838. When St. Mary's Cathedral was built in 1847, Holy Rosary Church became St. John's Hospital & Orphanage. The site was sold to the state in 1857.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1822 · Kentucky and Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Kentucky (Carey, 1822) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1824 · Kentucky (Finley, 1824) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Kentucky (A. Finley, 1827) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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