8th Ave. North & Dominican Dr. (General site of Freeland's Station) Nashville, TN Circa 1811. Looking from their new home, the Becks had a “buena vista,” a good view in Spanish. They could look north over the fertile bottomlands stretching to the Cumberland River or east toward the highlands near Ft. Nashborough. John Everett Beck, Jr. (1783-1818) and Lavinia Robertson Beck Craighead (1790-1866) built Buena Vista in 1811. They wed in 1808 and resided for a few years at the Ro