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Historic Edgefield
Neighborhood Association
Historic Edgefield, Inc.
P.O. Box 60586
Nashville, TN 37206
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What We Do
- Monthly General Neighborhood and Board meetings
- Annual special social events
- Publish monthly Newsletter, The Edgefield Connection
- Neighborhood Directory, Call Tree and internet listserve
- Neighborhood Watch
- Sponsor children at Warner Elementary School, Land Between the Lakes Camp
- Annual Home Tour and additional fund raising activities for special and varied projects
- Support Community Impact
- Support St. Ann's Summer Program
Through the years we have:
- Provided funds for protective storm windows on neighborhood churches' historic stained glass windows
- Contributed to the restoration of the Centennial Bell Tower at Tulip Street Church
- Contributed funds toward the countywide Historic Buildings Survey
- Maintained an archive of historic documents and photographs of Edgefield
- Commissioned a Landscape Plan for the neighborhood; Installed and maintain plantings around portable buildings of Warner School
- Installed stone entrances, through gift from the late Dr. Richard Fort
- Edgefield neighbors developed a Traffic Calming plan, and are currently working toward implementation
- Working with City Codes and Zoning agencies to rectify non-compliance
- Successes: encouraged removal of quonset hut from East Park; accomplished removal of abandoned 60's building at 8th and Fatherland Streets; saved from demolition a turn-of-the-century apartment building in 900 block of Russell Street
- Community Emergency Fund for neighbors in need; emergency house painting, wheelchair ramp and fencing are some examples of past projects
- Donated over $5500 to ReLeaf Nashville, a three year project to re-plant urban trees lost in the tornado of April 1998
- Actively participated in R/UDAT (Regional Urban Design Assistance Team, National Institute of Architects) in development of a plan for future growth throughout East Nashville
- Actively participate in Rediscover East!, the implementation of the 1999 R/UDAT plan that is ongoing
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