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

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Plate 189-190 of Sanborn's Fire Insurance atlas of Nashville. These plates depict a portion of present-day East Nashville, north of Main Street. Primarily residential, the neighborhood also contains the Steel Saddle-Tree Company, Bradens Chapel Methodist Episcopal, Meigs Colored Public School, and Seventh Day Adventist Church No. 2 listed as "Negro Church."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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  4. Businesses
  5. Churches
  6. Dwellings
  7. Education
  8. Fire Insurance Maps
  9. Fire Risk Assessment
  10. Industry
  11. Maps
  12. Mills
  13. Nashville (Tenn.)
  14. Nashville, Chattanooga, And St. Louis Railway
  15. Railroads
  16. Sanborn Map Company
  17. Schools
  18. Tennessee
  19. Universities
  20. Universities & Colleges
  21. Warehouses

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