North Wood Avenue Historic District:

This neighborhood includes all the houses on East Hawthorne and Meridian Streets and many on Kendrick Street with ages ranging from an 1832 townhouse to bungalows built in the 1920s. In July 1862 the Union forces under General Don Carlos Buell camped on the grounds of the Benjamin Franklin Foster home which extended from Hawthorne Street to Circular Road (Nellie Avenue). The Malone House, 226 West Hawthorne Street, served as Buell’s military hospital. Confederate breastworks were constructed here during the early years of the Civil War.