As development pressure intensifies across Middle Tennessee, the Battle of Nashville Trust faces an increasingly urgent and expensive challenge: identifying, acquiring, and preserving what remains of the city’s Civil War battlefield before it disappears forever. These challenges — including the rising cost of land and growing uncertainty surrounding a key state preservation funding source — are examined in a recent article by Pierce Gentry of WUOT News, published by WPLN News (Nashville Public Radio) on January 27, 2026.
Time – and money – is running out to save Civil War sites in Tennessee
https://wpln.org/post/time-and-money-is-running-out-to-save-civil-war-sites-in-tennessee/
