Jeannette Acklen Noel oral history interview, 25 Aug. 1976.
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Digital identifier: HNITCPNoel.

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Scope and content: Oral history interview with Jeannette Acklen Noel, conducted on 25 August 1976 by Jane King as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project. During the 25 minute interview, Noel discusses her family; clothing and fashions during the 1890s early 1900s; and her experiences at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Although she was only five at the time of the Centennial, her father served as the lawyer for the Egyptians participating in the Exposition, and she recounts some of her experiences with them. She also explains how obtaining clothing was much different when she was a child and a young mother than it was during the 1970s.

Index available (based upon original analog audiocassette recording), filed separately. Brief excerpts are available through the Digitial Collections portal of the Nashville Public Library website.

Cite as: Jeannette Acklen Noel, Historic Nashville Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.

This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). Copyright status is undetermined.

Unless otherwise restricted, interviewees donated to HNI "for such scholarly and educational purposes as Historic Nashville Inc. shall determine, the use of my taped interview," and consented that "portions of the taped interview may be used in publication."

Historic Nashville, Inc.;,Gift;,circa 1976.,Acc. RT-384.

Other materials created by Historic Nashville, Inc. are also in the holdings of the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library.

Jeannette Acklen Noel was born in Nashville on 7 May 1891 to Col. Joseph Hayes and Jeanette Tillotson Acklen. She was the granddaughter of Adelicia Hayes Acklen of Belmont Mansion. In 1913, she married Oscar French Noel, co-builder and operator of the Noel Hotel in downtown Nashville. They had three children: Oscar French Noel; Hayes Acklen Noel; and Catherine L. Noel. Noel was a noted horsewoman and was the founder and senior advisor to the Middle Tennessee Pony Club and a member of the board of governors of the U.S. Pony Club. She was the first sponsor of the Nashville Junior Riding Academy. She was also an accomplished golfer, winning Nashville's first championship golf tournament for women in 1923 and repeating her win the following year. She served as the first president of the Nashville Women's Golf Association and was a member of the U.S. Senior Women's Golf Association. Noel served her community in a variety of civic positions, including chairman of the Red Cross Canteen Service during World War II. She was a member of the Junior League of Nashville; the Francis Nash Chapter of DAR; Chapter VII, Colonial Dames; Middle Tennessee Plantation Chapter, Daughters of the American Colonists; Belle Meade County Club; YWCA; Historic Belmont Association; and the Adelicia Acklen Club. She was a founder and officer of Chapter I, Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities. She was also a member of the Downtown Presbyterian Church. Noel died in December 1984.

In English.

Forms part of Historic Nashville, Inc. Tennessee Centennial Oral History Project.