The buildings have been converted into an arts center. Protests over the park’s segregated swimming pool led to its closure in the 1960s. What remained was the Parthenon, the man-made lake, a band shell and a landscaped open area. When the exposition ended, many of the buildings and exhibits were dismantled. The location was selected as a host site for the World’s Fair. Two years later, the land was renamed Centennial Park in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Volunteer State’s admittance into the Union. The site served as a racetrack known as West Side Park from 1884 until 1895. The land became the state fairgrounds after the Civil War. Cockrill was also the first schoolteacher in Tennessee.
Her actions helped to save the settlement and several families who had recently moved to the area. While wounded, she led a “bucket brigade” of women who threw pots of boiling water on the men who were trying to set the fort on fire.
She acquired the property through a land grant for her heroic efforts to defend Fort Nashborough during an attack by Native American warriors. The park was originally farmland owned by Anne Robertson Cockrill, the sister of James Robertson, one of the Fathers of Middle Tennessee.
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