McConnell Field

McCONNELL FIELD

 

In 1927 the City of Nashville bought 131 acres from Warren Sloan and made this the city airport, named for Lieut. Brower McConnell, Tennessee National Guard pilot who died that year in an air crash.  Aircraft outgrew the field in the 1930s and moved to Sky Harbor and Berry Field.  The Works Progress Administration constructed the McCabe Golf Course, named for former Park Commission Chairman Charles McCabe, in 1939-1940.