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Formerly the site of the McFerrin House, home of John B. McFerrin, the Methodist evangelist who President James K Polk heard at a camp meeting in 1833 and was provoked, but left “a convicted sinner, if not a converted man.”

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Address: McFerrin Park, East Nashville
Nashville
Tennessee
United States

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