Park
Radnor Lake State Park
Spring-fed reservoir ringed by wooded hills, saved from subdivision by a grassroots fundraising race.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Radnor Lake State Park in Nashville centers on the fight to save the lake between nineteen seventy-one and nineteen seventy-three, when a construction company's purchase of the old railroad reservoir put its hills on track for a housing subdivision. You'll meet the Oak Hill neighbors, biologists, and a scrappy new group called Friends of Radnor Lake who raised money against a hard deadline, and hear where the single largest donation on the list came from. Stand at the water's edge and you're looking at the same hills once surveyed for driveways.
This audio guide was created using AI.