Neighbors celebrate Dickerson Road improvements | 2009-06-19
www.youtube.com/watch
Dickerson Road area business owners and residents joined Mayor Karl Dean and other community leaders on June 19 to celebrate the new Dickerson Road streetscape improvements, which include new signage, sidewalk replacement, stamped asphalt crosswalks at traffic signal intersections, pedestrian control signals, access ramps, and buffalo sculptures.
The streetscape project extends along Dickerson Road from North 1st Street to Douglas Avenue. The gateway monument and sculptures are located at the Dickerson Road/North 1st Street intersection.
Buffalo were chosen to be a project centerpiece because, in the late-1700s, large numbers of buffalo came through the area that is now Dickerson Road. They were drawn to a salt lick along the Cumberland River near downtown. The path the buffalo followed between the river bank and Mansker’s Fort in Goodlettsville eventually became Dickerson Road.
The improvement project has been funded through a combination of federal grants administered by the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency and the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
