Nashville Flood Hits Edwin Warner Park

Edwin Warner Park is part of the Warner Parks system comprised of Edwin Warner Park and Percy Warner Park.Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the two parks are adjacent to each other on either side of Old Hickory Boulevard in the Bellevue and Brentwood area of Nashville..

The two park were opened in 1927, but the main entrance to Edwin Warner Park was not built until 1933. The parks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Warner Park Historic District.

The two parks are made up of winding roads that are now bike trails, as well as dirt paths. At Percy Warner Park, there are also horse trails. In May of 2010, many of the roadways and other trails suffered massive damage due to the Nashville Flood.

Bellevue, Tennessee, which borders part of Edwin Warner Park, was especially hard hit during the great Nashville Flood of 2010.

On May 1 and 2 of 2010, a rainy weather front hovered over Middle Tennessee and dropped a deluge of rain over two days. All over the Warner Park system, trails were washed out, trees were downed, sinkholes opened up, and roadways cracked and crumbled.

To try to handle the massive amount of trash and debris coming out of near-by flooded houses, a massive temporary trash dump site was set up near the airplane field at Edwin Warner Park.This photo only shows the part of the dump site nearest the road.

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