Homes of David Lipscomb

Lipscomb's Civil War was a test of belief more than a campaign. As families and churches split, he concluded that Christians should take no part in war or in government, a position he later argued in his book Civil Government. After the war he edited the Gospel Advocate for forty-seven years, opposing missionary societies and instrumental music in worship. He reluctantly led the Churches of Christ out of the Disciples of Christ, and the 1906 religious census listed them as a separate fellowship. A 1976 poll of Tennessee Historical Society members ranked him fourteenth among the state's outstanding figures.

What the plaque says

Homes of David Lipscomb This cabin was home, periodically, up to 1882 of educator, editor, and religious leader David Lipscomb and wife, Margaret Zellner Lipscomb. The Associated Ladies for Lipscomb moved it here from Bell's Bend in 1985. In 1903 the Lipscombs built "Avalon" as their final home, and gave the surrounding farm as the campus for the Nashville Bible School, founded by Lipscomb and J. A. Harding in 1891. after Lipscomb's death in 1917, the school was renamed David Lipscomb College.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 3.0 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 3.9 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Ryman Auditorium — 4.0 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 4.0 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Defenses — 0.4 mi
• Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 3 — 0.9 mi
• Battle of Nashville: Franklin Pike — 1.3 mi
• Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 4 — 1.4 mi