Sulphur Dell - Wikipedia
WEBSulphur Dell, formerly known as Sulphur Spring Park and Athletic Park, was a baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was located just north of the Tennessee State Capitol building in the block bounded by modern-day Jackson Street, Fourth Avenue North, Harrison Street, and Fifth Avenue North.
Sulphur Dell | Tennessee Encyclopedia
WEBOct 8, 2017 · This historic professional baseball park in Nashville once stood between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, North and Jackson and Summer Streets. Union troops introduced baseball to the city in 1862, when they played in a low-lying area north of the statehouse known as Sulphur Springs Bottom.
Sulphur Dell (Nashville) - Society for American Baseball Research
WEBJan 8, 2012 · The Dell was a natural bowl, a sinkhole near an artesian sulfur spring. For decades the sinkhole was the last resting place of Nashville’s garbage, a landfill in those environmentally unconscious days. One writer said it gave a unique aroma to the hot dogs.
SULPHUR DELL — First Horizon Park
WEBSulphur Dell was demolished in 1969, but its memory lives on today through several homages at First Tennessee Park (becoming First Horizon Park). See the replica Sulphur Dell marquee behind the batter's eye; the home plate marker on the first-base concourse; and signage throughout First Horizon Park.
Sulphur Dell - The Historical Marker Database
WEBThis low-lying area, called Sulphur Spring Bottom, was first called “Sulphur Dell” by local sports writer, Grantland Rice. In 1963 this was the oldest playing grounds still in use in professional baseball.
Sulphur Dell Over the Years - The Tennessean
WEBApr 14, 2015 · Demolition of Nashville world-famous baseball park, Sulphur Dell, began as a section of the right field grandstand roof was ripped away as about 35 people said goodbye April 16, 1969. The last...
Sulphur Dell - Wikiwand
WEBSulphur Dell, formerly known as Sulphur Spring Park and Athletic Park, was a baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was located just north of the Tennessee State Capitol building in the block bounded by modern-day Jackson Street, Fourth Avenue North, Harrison Street, and Fifth Avenue North.
Park History - First Horizon Park
WEBThe construction of First Horizon Park, previously known as First Tennessee Park, marked a return of baseball to the area where Sulphur Dell once stood. Sulphur Dell hosted Negro and Minor League Baseball teams from the 19th century through 1963, including a six-decade run as the home of the Southern Association's Nashville Vols.
History of baseball at Sulphur Dell - The Tennessean
WEBApr 15, 2015 · On Opening Day April 17, 1951, Nashville's Sulphur Dell celebrated a new look that included a remodeled façade, new turnstiles, brick walls, wider exits and other improvements.
Sulphur Dell - CNU
WEBStudents from the University of Maryland designed a dense, mixed-use neighborhood called Sulphur Dell—organized around strong public spaces and a new pedestrian-bicycle street called the Dell Stroke.