Construction Crew Finds Part Of Gallatin's History

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - While digging up part of a road, crews unearthed tracks from the inter-urban rail car that ran between Nashville and Gallatin in the early 1900s.

In all his days of digging Brian Anderson finally dug up something worth finding.

"We usually don't find anything good. Usually if we find something we don't know about it's bad," said Anderson.

Just outside the very place that sells things from years past, Antiques on Main, a little piece of 1913 popped up out of the ground.

"A lot of people have been disgruntled about the street project but yet look what came from it a piece of history turned up," said Royce Havens, Antiques on Main.

Below the layers of concrete and rock were tracks from the inter-urban rail car.

"I called everybody I could think of to tell them what we'd found," said Havens.

Nearly 100 years ago an electric train taxied people from Gallatin to Nashville and back at 50 miles per hour.

"They thought about it 100 years ago and hey we could do it again," said Havens.

Area mayors are looking to bring this mass transit system back to life.

"Here we are almost 100 years later and we're going back and saying we need a system to move a lot of people," said Gallatin Mayor Jo Ann Graves.

After the tracks are cleaned, they will be put on display at city hall during the month of September. After that, they will go to the Sumner County Museum.