Excerpt from Nashville City and Business Directory, for 1860-61, Vol. 5 The work is before the public. We have endeavored, to the best of our abilities, under unfavorable circumstances, to make it acceptable. If it shall have the efi'ect to place our city in a preper light before the country, and increase its business, or benefit any of its material interests, it will not have failed in its mission, and will ins ire the publishers and proprietors to make future volumes still more use and valuable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.