G.M. Hopkins & Co

Description

Plate 10 of the 1889 Atlas of Nashville detailing the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway freight terminal and engine house and the neighborhood directly southwest. A number of African American and white churches populate the neighborhood. The old Tennessee State Penitentiary still stood on Cedar. The Tarbox Public School, built three years prior, is visible near the bottom left of the map.Griffith Morgan Hopkins was born around 1836, however the exact date is unknown. He first began printing maps in 1857 and continued until his retirement in 1900. He founded G. M. Hopkins & Co. with his brother Henry W. Hopkins, and together they produced many city and county atlases, primarily of the northeast, from their shop in Philadelphia. Their 1908 Atlas of Nashville is a fine, block-by-block depiction of the town in a period of growth to a modern urban center. G. M. Hopkins & Co. continued on after the founders' retirements until the Great Depression ended the demand for their atlases. The company was sold to the Franklin Survey Company in 1943, with the name intact, due to its association with quality.

Record Contributed By

Tennessee State Library & Archives

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Tennessee