The Berry Legacy: From Nashville Banking to Nashville’s Airport

Oil painting-style illustration of a vintage biplane on a grass airfield in Middle Tennessee, with a military officer in uniform standing at the tree line watching it taxi. A wooden hangar sits to the left and rolling green hills stretch across the horizon—evoking the founding of Berry Field by Colonel Harry Smith Berry in 1928, the predecessor to Nashville International Airport (BNA) and a cornerstone of Nashville aviation history tied to the Bradford-Berry House legacy.

The Bradford-Berry House carries two family names, and both of them shaped the history of Middle Tennessee. We have met the Bradfords—the Revolutionary War veteran, the frontier builder, the father of a governor’s wife. Now it is time to meet the Berrys. The Berry family’s story in Nashville begins with William Wells Berry, born in […]

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