FIRST - Teacher in Nashville, Tennessee
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BruceS
N 36° 08.827 W 086° 48.643
16S E 517027 N 4000282
Plaque honoring Ann Robertson Cockrill,the first teacher in Nashville. Located in Centennial Park.
Waymark Code: WMGD9Q
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2013
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The plaque has a relief of Ann Robertson Cockrill teaching children with the wood stockade in the background. Below the relief is the following inscription:
Near this spot stood the home of John Cockrill and his wife, Ann Robertson Cockrill, sister of General James Robertson. Born in North Carolina on February 10, 1757. Ann Robertson came to the Cumberland Settlement with Donelson's Flotilla early in 1780. Here she organized a school for the pioneers' children. This becoming Nashville's first school teacher. Also she organized and taught Nashville's first Sunday school class. She died here on October 15, 1821, and is buried in the City Cemetery.
Erected by the school children of Nashville and Davidson county and the Tennessee Historical Commission, 1946
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