This week, we journey to the bustling area of Eighth Avenue South in Nashville and realize its history goes way beyond Zanies, Melrose Lanes and Melrose Theater.
Melrose Mansion (where the Melrose Kroger today sits) overlooked the southern end of what became the Melrose area and stretched across the south Nashville countryside from Franklin Road to Nolensville Road.
Alexander Barrow, a Nashville lawyer and planter from Louisiana, and his second wife and distant cousin, Mary Ann Barrow Barrow, built the mansion in 1836 as a summer home to escape the heat of their Louisiana plantations. Alexander’s brother was G. Washington Barrow of Boscobel in East Nashville…