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Marmaduke Beckwith Morton (1859-1943)

Nashville now and then: Facing the consequences, or not

The city's surrender trumps imminent corporal punishment, and a local judge survives a grand jury's efforts to indict him
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Nashville now and then: Liquid assets

It's easy to take a bountiful supply of clean water for granted, but in Nashville it hasn't reached your tap without generations of effort -- and a few little missteps along the way
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Nashville now and then: From here to there

Our moon was in the house of public transportation during the last week of April in 1889 and in 1931... Also: Vanderbilt plays the site-selection game in April and May 1873, and a look at stocks of local interest on May 2, 1928
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Last days of real steamboating on the Cumberland

[From "The colorful eighties in Nashville," a 12-part series of reminiscences published in 1930 by M. B. Morton, managing editor of the Nashville Banner]

Battlefield monument to be dedicated this month

Memorial stands at the spot where forces fought for possession of city of Nashville in fierce engagement of War Between States.
[As published in the Nashville Tennessean, October 3, 1926]


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