Goodlettsville history

Around 1850 the town's name of Mansker Station was changed to Goodlettsville in honor of the well-respected Goodlett family, whose patriarch and grandsons served the community as physician, pastor, and store owner.

To calm these anxieties, in 1851 the United States government placed a conference with several local Indian tribes and established the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

December 15, 1864. "Nashville, Tennessee.

1865 The End of the Civil War In 1865, barely six months after the end of the Civil War and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville.

In 1871 the federal government approved a critical law proclaiming that the United States would not treat Native American tribes as autonomous entities.

In 1887, Congress passed the General Allotment Act, the most significant element of the United States government’s assimilation platform, which was developed to “civilize” American Indians by teaching them to become farmers.

Many American Indian bands didn’t survive relocation, cultural destruction and military defeat; by 1890 the Native American population was reduced to under 250,000 people.

The Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition was an exposition staged between May 1 and October 31 of 1897 in Nashville.

Connell Memorial United Methodist Church was built in 1905 on a hill overlooking the town and boasts beautiful stained glass windows.

Completed in 1930, the library is named after Erastus Cravath, the first president of Fisk University.

Black and white photograph of the historic downtown Kress building, an Art Deco retail store built in 1935.

Kasper was sufficiently famous in Middle Tennessee to warrant a fairly long entry in the WPA Writer's Guide to Tennessee, published in 1939:

The Goodlettsville Fire Department was established as a volunteer fire department by the Goodlettsville Men's Club in 1944.

Built in the mid 1960’s, this building first housed Denton’s Furniture and Appliance Store, and adjoined the historic Main Street stores that included Dardon’s Pharmacy, Oscar Brooks Men’s Store, B.F. Myers Dry Goods and others.

The Goodlettsville Area Chamber of Commerce was formed in 1961 by a group of local merchants seeking to develop a prosperous business community three years after the City of Goodlettsville incorporated.

Nashville Then: August 1973

WHITMAN: 1975 Bullwinkle Magic Slate

The first Fire Hall was on the corner of Main Street at Memorial, the second at 117 Memorial Drive where it remained until June 1997.