"It was on Jan. 9, 1866, that the Negro public school that became Fisk
University was opened in the newly vacated Federal hospital barracks,
near the old
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. It was west of the depot,
on the corner of Church and what is now Twelfth Avenue.
The picture above was taken in June, 1866"
Tennesseean 1938Next
