What This Story Is About
- Metro Councilman Jordan Huffman announced a proposal to redevelop the site of a beloved Hermitage church destroyed in the March 2020 tornado.
Why It Matters
- Huffman describes the church as a place that stood for “generations” and it was one of many losses that came of the tornadic event.
- The proposal will be put before the Metro Planning Commission on August 20.
For Context
- According to the National Weather Service, the March 2-3 tornadoes in 2020 came from several supercell thunderstorms, with the worst of the tornadoes touching down across Middle Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – In March 2020, an early morning tornado hit the Nashville area, reducing a beloved Hermitage church to rubble.
Dodson Chapel United Methodist Church, which was built in 1906, took a direct hit from the twister, which struck as an EF3. Rev. Chris Seifert, senior pastor of Hermitage United Methodist Church, told the United Methodist Church’s news service that it was “heartbreaking to look at.”
“The church building itself is pretty much gone,” he said…