Nashville's earliest trolley park was the one in east Nashville that ended at Fatherland Street and South 13th Street. It had a little spring-fed lake, a bandstand, a ''monkey cage'' and shady walks lined with shrubs and flowers. Mules pulled the first streetcars arriving there. Others were later electric-powered. Spring Park was ''the only resort for the people of Nashville for recreation and change of air and water,'' according to an 1885 Nashville brochure.



CREDITS: Leland R. Johnson, "The Parks of Nashville"