Historic First Methodist Church Site: 1 E. College St.

This tower is a remnant of the 1888 Romanesque Revival church that served local Methodists for 115 years. Suffragist Sarah Spence DeBow rang the bell in 1920 to celebrate Tennessee’s ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1934, the church held the funeral of Will Allen Dromgoole, a poet, novelist, literary editor, powerful public speaker, suffragist, and one of the first women to serve as a yeomanry warrant officer in the U.S. Navy.