- Lockeland Springs
The Lockeland Springs historic neighborhood is a turn-of-the-century streetcar suburb two miles northeast of downtown
Nashville, Tennessee inEast Nashville . In 1786, this land was granted by the State of North Carolina to Daniel Williams, in payment for service in the Revolutionary War. The first house in the area was the log cabin Williams built on the site of the present Lockeland School.The first mansion built in this area was named by Col.
Robert Weakley after his wife Jane Locke Weakleys family in the early 1800s thus naming Lockeland Springs.Later, country estates dotted the landscape: Lockeland, Lynnlawn, Edgewood, and Springside, to name a few. Subdivision of these estates began in the 1870s, and the building of the Woodland Street Bridge in 1886 and the introduction of electric streetcars spurred suburban development. By 1890, electric streetcar lines linked east Nashville with downtown. Prior to this, only the wealthy could afford to commute from their estates to the other side of the Cumberland River. Access was further facilitated by the construction of the
Shelby Street Bridge in 1909. Lockeland Springs was annexed to the City of Nashville in 1905.During the
1998 Nashville tornado outbreak , many of the area's homes were damaged or destroyed.Former Nashville Mayor
Bill Purcell resides in Lockeland Springs.There are over 1500 households in the neighborhood. The neighborhood association was formed in 1978.
External links
[http://www.lockelandsprings.org Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Association website]
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