Middle Tennessee's Lotz House to offer special tours for Women's History Month
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To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Lotz House Civil War Museum is offering specialty tours to highlight women’s role in history.
The tours will explore women’s day-to-day lives in the 19th century and how they survived the Civil War and its aftermath. Some of the women's stories featured on the tour will include Fannie Courtney, who wrote to the Sanitary Commission after the Battle of Franklin on the status of the hospitals, and Mariah Reddick, who was born into slavery and became a midwife and sick nurse in Williamson County.
Lotz House staff member Kelly Kautzman will lead the tours. Since joining in 2018, Kautzman has always been fascinated with the lives of women in Williamson County, she said.
"When I first arrived at the Lotz House, I was captivated by Matilda Lotz's journey from a sheltered life to becoming a resilient and talented woman,” she said. “I take pleasure in sharing her story, along with those of other women of the era, including female soldiers."
Women’s History Tours will take place at 6:30 p.m. on March 10, 19 and 24. Tickets are $25 for adults, $12 for children ages 7-13 and free for ages 6 and under. Reservations are required by calling 615-790-7170.
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Middle Tennessee Lotz House to host Women's History Month tours
