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Tennessee Outdoors: Parks, Conservation, and Wildlife
 
Intro Conservation Wildlife Recreation Parks

 

Percy Warner Park

 

Percy Warner Park

Entrance to Percy Warner Park looking north towards Belle Meade Boulevard
Nashville, TN

July 5, 1951

RG 82, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection

 

 

Percy Warner

Percy Warner & "Rufus" the crane
in front of Renraw
Nashville, TN

Library Picture Collection

Percy Warner Park is located in Davidson and Williamson counties and is connected to Edwin Warner Park. Collectively, these two parks are known as Warner Parks. Together they cover 2,648 acres, making them, in combination, the largest municipal parks in the state. They opened in 1927 and are located on land donated by Percy Warner’s daughter Percie and her husband, Luke Lea. The parks were named after her father, a member of the old Nashville Board of Park Commissioners, and her uncle Edwin, who was also a park commissioner.

Percy Warner Park is characterized by the steps built into the mountain located at the entrance of the park on Belle Meade Boulevard. The park is home to two golf courses, a nature center, and the Iroquois Steeplechase, which has been held there since May 1941. The parks were named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

 

Main entrance to Percy Warner Park

The main entrance to Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

June 1, 1967

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Unveiling of plaque

Unveiling of plaque in Percy Warner Park
honoring Col. Luke Lea
Nashville, TN

April 16, 1950

Luke Lea Papers

View of the Harpeth River Valley

View of the Harpeth River Valley
from Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

April 12, 1945

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Iroquois Steeplechase

Iroquois Steeplechase in Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

May 1, 1969

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

January 23, 1940

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

January 7, 1960

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

January 7, 1960

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park

Snowfall in Percy Warner Park
Nashville, TN

January 23, 1940

RG 82, Department of Conservation
Photograph Collection

 

 

 

 

Section researched and written by Kimberly Wires, Archival Assistant.

 

 

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