Historical landmark
Fort Nashborough
Riverside log fort reconstruction marking the landing site of the earliest pioneer settlers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fort Nashborough in Nashville follows John Donelson, a Virginia land surveyor turned river captain, as he leads a flotilla of some thirty families down an uncharted stretch of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in the winter of seventeen seventy-nine. You will hear about the smallpox outbreak aboard one boat, the Cherokee attack that followed, and the journal Donelson kept through it all. Listen from the plaza among the reconstructed log structures on First Avenue, above the Cumberland River.
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