Our History

  • Portrait of Ms. Eakin
  • Historical Marker Unveiling
  • Eagles with 1936 graduate Martha Ann Elliott

Eakin Gives You The World!

Elizabeth Atchison Eakin, born in Nashville on Feb. 26, 1858, married prominent banker John H. Eakin in 1882.  Active in many civic causes, she became the first woman to join the Nashville City School Board in 1917. 

After her death in 1936, a new school on Fairfax Ave., built with funds from the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration, was named in her Honor.  In 2006, Eakin moved to the adjacent Cavert School, and the former Eakin building became the Martin Center for Professional Development.