Zoo
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere
Antebellum farmhouse and burial ground preserved amid a modern zoo built on a former plantation.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Grassmere, the historic farm inside the Nashville Zoo, follows two burial grounds only steps apart on the same property. One belongs to the Dunn and Croft family, who lived here for five generations before willing the land to become a nature center. The other went unmarked and undiscovered for decades, holding enslaved workers from the same plantation. You will hear how archaeologists first found it, and what that discovery set in motion.
This audio guide was created using AI.