The Metropolitan Historical Commission and the Nashville City Cemetery Association Board cordially invites you to the Nashville Living History Tour at the Nashville City Cemetery located on Fourth Avenue, South at Oak Street on Saturday – November 5. Tickets may be purchased on the day of the event. Tours will be conducted from 1:00 until 5:00 pm. The cost is $5.00 per person or $10.00 per family. Free parking and shuttle bus service to and from the Nashville Sounds baseball team parking lots located at 534 Chestnut Street is provided. Meet and hear the life stories of some of the early leaders of Nashville including – George Washington Campbell (United States Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator and Minister to Russia), Ephraim Hubbard Foster (United States Senator), Moses W. Wetmore (land speculator and early developer of east Nashville), Powhattan W. Maxey (Mayor of Nashville), Jack Macon (African American herbal physician), John McNairy (middle Tennessee’s first territorial and United States District Judge), Mary Middleton Rutledge Fogg (poet, author, and granddaughter of two signers of the American Declaration of Independence), and he mother of White Turpin (a solider killed in the War Between the States). Period music will be played and sung during the afternoon. Opened in 1822, the Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville. Join us for a walk through Nashville History. For additional Information Contact: Dr. Bill McKee, Chairperson Metropolitan Historical Commission 615-547-1311 (office) 615-227-0309 (home) 615-390-8690 (cell) bmckee@cumberland.edu (email