The mission of the Dutchman's Curve project is to:

• Memorialize the worst train wreck in U.S. history by establishing, in Nashville, a Metro Historic Marker on White Bridge Road near the accident site.
  
• Preserve the oral history of Dutchman's Curve, by interviewing family members and descendants of victims, and witnesses.
  
• Present Nashville history to school children and    to encourage them to recognize the significance of their communities past.
  
• Create a Dutchman's Curve tour of graves at Nashville's historic Mt. Olivet Cemetery .
  

Notes to our supporters from Betsy Thorpe:

I would like to acknowledge the descendants and
family members of Willis Farris Sr. for
their financial support of this project,
and for encouraging me to tell this story.
They have inspired me with confidence.

Mrs. Frank Farris Jr.
Mary Ann Farris Robbins
Mary Farris Lynch
Ed and Hettie Stuart
Evelyn Farris Raines
Bobby and Dean Reeves

I would also like to acknowledge
George M Vaughn, grandson of
Dutchman's Curve victim Sydney Vaughn
and Duncan Eve III son of
NC&StL physician,DR. Duncan Eve Jr.
I appreciate their financial support and
their willingness to share their families
history with me.

I am especially grateful to my employer, Shoney's Corporation for believing in me and supporting this project.

Thank you to our supporters

Senator Douglas Henry
Jack and Sue Spence
Kenneth and Carrie Climer
Mr.and Mrs. Ray Wallace
Tom Wood
Terry and Jane Coats
William Close

To Irene Ward, Executive Assistant to Senator
Douglas Henry.
Thank you for your help in the development of the
Dutchman's Curve Project. You opened many doors
for me.

I spend most of my research hours in
The Nashville Room at the Downtown
Branch Library. Librarian, Jim Haveron
is very patient answering my most trivial
questions about Nashville history and
I appreciate the time he has given me.

Tracey Howerton has keen research skills
and she found information significant
to The Dutchman's Curve Project in an
unlikely place.

I want to thank both of them for their
assistance and interest in this project.

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To donate to The Dutchman's Curve Project
Send check to

Bellevue Harpeth Historic Association
PO Box 210183
Nashville TN 377221

Mark check for Dutchman's Curve

To follow the progress of the Dutchman's Curve Project visit Jam Tart Productions