Project 06 · Cultural Landscape Report

Fort Negley

Nashville, TN

Client

Metro Nashville Parks

Location

Nashville, TN

Year

2019

Project type

Cultural landscape and restoration report

The largest inland masonry fort built during the Civil War.

Union forces built Fort Negley on St. Cloud Hill in the fall of 1862, soon after they occupied Nashville. Most of the work was done by Black Nashvillians, free and enslaved, pressed into service by the army.

For Metro Nashville Parks, Encore managed the project and authored the Fort Negley Cultural Landscape and Restoration Report, completed in 2019. A cultural landscape report traces how a historic site came to look the way it does and recommends how it should be preserved and restored.

Historic photograph of the fort under construction on St. Cloud Hill — The fort under construction on St. Cloud Hill, 1862

Historic photograph of the fort's stone walls in ruins — The ruins, photographed by Giers in the 1880s

Surviving stone walls of Fort Negley in summer grass — Surviving stone walls, 2018

Overlook deck with interpretive panel above downtown Nashville — The overlook above downtown, 2018

Scope of work

Project management · Cultural landscape and restoration report