INTRODUCTION
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is full of a different animal which entertains the persons who visit there i.e it is a Zoological garden and also one historic plantation farming house is situated 6 miles away from the southeast of downtown Nashville.
In 2014 it has a goodly reputation, and it was the main attraction of middle Tennessee. According to a record in 2014 the garden has 6,230 individual animals bound by 339 species.
The zoo covers about 188 acres or 76ha. Here in this zoo at the end of the year, approximately 964,760 visitors come.
The price of the ticket for adults and teens costs $17 from Mon – Fri and $19 from Sat-Sun. For children age of 2-15 price of the ticket is $13 from Mon –Fri and $15 Sat-Sun.
DUNN FARM
There were one couple name Michael Dunn and Elizabeth Dunn who use to live there were today the Nashville zoo stand.
it was a 300 acre slave-holding farm. It was the original home of the Dunn constructed in 1810 by slave labor even now it is located on that property.
The granddaughters of Michael Dunn Margaret and Elise Croft are the owner of that property and are the last of that family to live at the location. In 1989 while archaeologists were assessing the property they found an unmarked cemetery fairly close to Grassmere.
In 1997 when the construction began no one tries to interfere or try to do anything to the graveyard. Before the zoo was made the plaza was going to make here. Here archaeologists told or assume that about 9-30 Africans were buried.
GRASSMERE WILDLIFE PARK
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is full of a different animal which entertains the persons who visit there i.e it is a Zoological garden and also one historic plantation farming house is situated 6 miles away from the southeast of downtown Nashville.
In 2014 it has a goodly reputation, and it was the main attraction of middle Tennessee. According to a record in 2014 the garden has 6,230 individual animals bound by 339 species.
The zoo covers about 188 acres or 76ha. Here in this zoo at the end of the year, approximately 964,760 visitors come.
The price of the ticket for adults and teens costs $17 from Mon – Fri and $19 from Sat-Sun. For children age of 2-15 price of the ticket is $13 from Mon –Fri and $15 Sat-Sun.
DUNN FARM
There were one couple name Michael Dunn and Elizabeth Dunn who use to live there were today the Nashville zoo stand.
it was a 300 acre slave-holding farm. It was the original home of the Dunn constructed in 1810 by slave labor even now it is located on that property.
The granddaughters of Michael Dunn Margaret and Elise Croft are the owner of that property and are the last of that family to live at the location. In 1989 while archaeologists were assessing the property they found an unmarked cemetery fairly close to Grassmere.
In 1997 when the construction began no one tries to interfere or try to do anything to the graveyard. Before the zoo was made the plaza was going to make here. Here archaeologists told or assume that about 9-30 Africans were buried.
GRASSMERE WILDLIFE PARK
- There are two sisters who own this property name Margaret and Elise Croft
- In 1964 they deeded home for children museum
- They concurred that the place would be utilized as a nature study center and the house would reside there only.
- After Elise death in 1985, the museum began the work on the nature study center
- And from this time it is called Grassmere Wildlife Park
- Grassmere Wildlife Park was closed in December 1994
- Ownership of property with a city off Nashville was over and so they start began to search for an independent organization
- And that time Nashville Zoo opened in Joelton a private facility in Tennessee May 1991
- Phil Bredesen thee mayor of Nashville said that there should be only one thing either in Joelton the Nashville zoo should be relocated or Grassmere be converted to a city park without animals
- In 1996 October the Nashville council passed the decision to relocate the Grassmere
- The zoo remained open and the experience of the place makes it remarkable to tour and spend the day with anyone.
- The Nashville park at Grassmere also opened in May 1997
- Both the Grassmere and Zoo remained open
- There was much confusion created so the zoo closed its site in Joelton in October 1998 and everyone focus has gone mainly on the Grassmere location