Nashville, TN
An antebellum estate and the lives it contains.
Two Rivers Mansion is one of Nashville's finest surviving antebellum plantation houses, built in 1859 on the east bank of the Stones River in what is now Donelson. Metro Nashville Parks operates the property as a historic house museum.
Encore wrote and designed the interpretation in two phases: five exterior signs in 2021, followed by three interior reader rails in 2026. Together they look past the architecture to the lives the house contained, from the McGavock family who built it to the enslaved people whose labor made it possible.
At its height the plantation covered some 1,100 acres. Metro Nashville purchased the house in 1966, and it is now the heart of a public park.
