Improvements to the Battle of Nashville Trust’s newly-acquired part of the Shy’s Hill battlefield has gained a tremendous boost due to a new grant approved by Americana Corner and its founder and director, Tom Hand.
“We are very proud to announce that we’ve been selected as a 2025 Americana Corner Preserving America Grant Recipient,” said Bobby Whitson, President of the Battle of Nashville Trust (BONT). Americana Corner’s grant program was established to assist non-profit organizations like BONT in “the telling of the incredible story of America from its founding era through its first century as a nation.”
Americana Corner was created by Tom Hand in 2020 as an online resource “to help others rediscover America’s incredible founding and first century of expansion. The Preserving America Grant Program assists organizations (like BONT) that tell the story of our nation’s wonderful past and rekindle a love for American history and all its splendor.” For more information regarding Americana Corner’s mission of historical preservation and interpretation, BONT invites you to visit its website at www.americanacorner.com.
The new funds will be used to reimburse the Trust for the already-significant amount of expenditures that were necessary to clean up the new site and prepare it for visitors and future historical interpretive development such as signage explaining and describing the deadly warfare that occurred on the hallowed ground on Dec. 16, 1864.
The new site, covering a little more than an acre on the lower north slope of Shy’s Hill, was purchased by BONT in April, 2024, as part of its continuing efforts to preserve, maintain, and interpret the original Battle of Nashville battlefield.
