A summary - the buildings were built beginning in 1939. They were completed after June of 1941. The last streetcar in Nashville ran in February 1941, months before the garages on Rolling Mill Hill were completed. Not Trolley Barns.

Back around 2004, an intern from the Metro Historical Commission came into Metro Nashville Archives looking for information on the "trolley barns" on Rolling Mill Hill. My co-worker Linda and I said together, there are no trolley barns on Rolling Mill Hill. We told him first of all Nashvillians called them streetcars, not trolleys. Linda had researched those buildings just a few years before while conducting an historical property survey for Davidson County, under the guidance of the Metro Historical Commission. I had researched the early transit system extensively including the car barns where the streetcars were kept. We both knew that no building on that hill had any connection to streetcars. Absolute proof that these buildings had no connection to trolleys or streetcars or public transportation is posted here for all to see.

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