This 4th volume in a series of books on historic sites in Davidson County provides rich histories of prominent early Nashville families, including the Robertsons, Bosleys, Cockrills and Stumps, who lived on big plantations along the Charlotte Pike. Ridley also writes about the Nashville Land Improvement Company that developed a large area of farmland in today's West Nashville into New Town in the late 1880s and early 1890s. New Town was a combination of middle income homes near Charlotte and com