Fort Nashborough - Nashville, Tennessee

Address:170 1st Ave. N
Nashville, Tennessee
Tel: (615) /86-2840

Set high atop limestone bluffs in Nashville's Riverfront Park on the Cumberland River, the recreated rustic log fort of Fort Nashborough is a memorial to the original. Built by the early settlers in 1780, Fort Nashborough existed for 12 years while housing and protecting the first Nashville (then Nashborough) families from the constant threat of attacks from the local Native Americans. Today, Fort Nashborough consists of five log cabins carefully recreated to match their originals. Costumed interpreters give visitors a sense of the settlers' lives before the city of Nashville was officially founded. Fort Nashborough is free and open to the public year-round.