Formerly on Fort Negley's property, Greer Stadium was constructed for the Nashville Sounds, the city’s minor league baseball team. Named for Herschel Greer (1906-1976), a Nashville businessman and the founding president of the city's first baseball team, the Nashville Vols, the stadium took over baseball diamonds and park space that were open to the public. The stadium was vacated as the team moved to a new stadium in 2015. With the property's future uncertain, a controversial redevelopment plan proposed mixed-use property that included park space and affordable housing. However, in 2018, the land was returned to Fort Negley Park after the discovery of unmarked slave burial grounds near the Greer Stadium property. Fort Negley was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Fort Negley was listed as a Site of Memory in the Slave Route Project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2019.
Greer Stadium
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Formerly on Fort Negley's property, Greer Stadium was constructed for the Nashville Sounds, the city’s minor league baseball team. Named for Herschel Greer (1906-1976), a Nashville businessman and the founding president of the city's first baseball team, the Nashville Vols, the stadium took over baseball diamonds and park space that were open to the public. The stadium was vacated as the team moved to a new stadium in 2015. With the property's future uncertain, a controversial redevelopment plan proposed mixed-use property that included park space and affordable housing. However, in 2018, the land was returned to Fort Negley Park after the discovery of unmarked slave burial grounds near the Greer Stadium property. Fort Negley was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Fort Negley was listed as a Site of Memory in the Slave Route Project of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2019.