Connecting neighbors.
Protecting The Bend.
Mission
The Rural Neely’s Bend Neighborhood Association exists to connect and empower residents committed to the preservation, promotion, and celebration of the Rural Neely’s Bend community.
We hope you’ll join us.
A rural paradise.
Neely’s Bend is one of the last remaining spaces in the Nashville-Davidson county dedicated to preserving the land in its natural state, with small-scale agriculture and a rural lifestyle.
Uninterrupted history.
Neely’s Bend contains physical traces and family descendants of 250 years of Nashville history. Pioneer settlement of Neely’s Bend dates back to 1780. Many physical remnants of the era still remain.
Life in Neely’s Bend dates back even further. Evidence of pre-historic and Mississippian-era life can be found throughout The Bend where the Shawnee people lived for generations.
An archaeological survey of lower Neely’s Bend in the 1970s “hit prehistoric artifacts almost everywhere they stuck a spade,” including sizable numbers of archaic stone-box burials. Low-lying bends of the Cumberland River like Neely’s Bend are dense with native American habitations, burials, and camp sites.