Site of Waterworks Plant in Nashville, Tennessee

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Site of Waterworks Plant

Hermitage Ave @ General Hospital, Nashville, TN , USA

The city’s present waterworks was inaugurated at this site Oct. 1, 1833. The pumping station was erected on the lower river bluff and the reservoir on the upper grounds. German engineer, Albert Stein, designed and supervised construction. The system cost $55,000, the first bonded debt of the city. A new plant was in operation & this site was abandoned by Apr. 1891.

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