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Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Nashville, Tenn. (1897, rev. 1911)

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Plates 143-144, this Sanborn Fire Insurance map shows the area near the intersection of Lafayette and 1st Avenue near the present-day J. C. Napier Homes. Central Tennessee College and Meharry Medical College, both African American institutions of higher education, are depicted. Nelson-Merry Public School and an African American fraternal lodge are included in the inset. It includes residences, churches, businesses, dormitories, a school, and Browns Creek.Daniel Alfred Sanborn, a civil engineer and surveyor, began working on fire insurance maps in the 1860s and his company soon became one of the largest and most successful American map companies. Sanborn's first work mapping cities for insurance purposes began in Tennessee when Aetna Insurance hired him to survey a few towns across the state, however none of these earliest examples are known to exist today (Ristow, Walter W. "United States Fire Insurance and Underwriters Maps· 1852—1968." The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 25, no. 3 (1968): 194-218." Sanborn maps were originally created to estimate fire insurance risks. Insurance companies would decide how much insurance, if any, was to be offered to a customer solely through the use of a Sanborn map. Today, the maps are frequently used for historical research and for preservation and restoration purposes.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Architecture
  2. Buildings
  3. Businesses
  4. Churches
  5. Dwellings
  6. Education
  7. Fire Insurance Maps
  8. Fire Risk Assessment
  9. Industry
  10. Maps
  11. Meharry Medical College
  12. Nashville (Tenn.)
  13. Railroads
  14. Sanborn Map Company
  15. Schools
  16. Tennessee
  17. Universities
  18. Universities & Colleges
  19. Warehouses

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