A Bibliography of African American Places in Tennessee (Ken Middleton) provides sources for documenting the histories and locations of churches, schools, other properties, and communities. Sources referenced include Sanborn maps, county maps from the 1930s that provide school locations, newspaper articles, theses and dissertations, and books.
The Bottoms (Rutherford County Archives) This online exhibit traces the history of an African American neighborhood in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Free Hills (Center for Historic Preservation)
Nashville Globe: African American newspaper (early 1900s) that includes regular "Out of town" columns covering events/happenings in "Cemetery," Hortense, Lake Providence, and other communities.
Stones River Battlefield Historic Landscape Much of this collection documents the development of "Cemetery," an African American community that developed soon after the Civil War but was displaced by the creation of the Stones River National Battlefield.
