Explore Historic Edgefield
Once its own independent city, Historic Edgefield was incorporated into Nashville in 1880 and quickly became the city's most coveted address — a quieter retreat across the Cumberland River where Nashville's doctors, lawyers, and businessmen built their estate homes.
It survived a devastating fire in 1916, two tornadoes, and waves of urban renewal that nearly erased it entirely. Urban pioneers saved it in the 1970s, and in 1977 it became Nashville's first neighborhood listed on the National Historic Register and first Historic Preservation District.
Today it's one of East Nashville's most character-rich addresses — Italianate, Queen Anne, and Craftsman homes protected by the most stringent historic guidelines in the area. Steps from Five Points dining, walkable, and full of history. Jesse James once lived here, at 712 Fatherland Street.
Some neighborhoods have a story. Edgefield has several.
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