A weathered grotto overgrown with vines
The 'Virtue' stereo view shows a weathered stacked-stone wall thick with vines and plants over a lily pond.
The questionHow does a grotto look this overgrown at a fair that had just opened?
Investigate · Nashville 1897
Virtue. Tennessee Centennial, Nashville, 1897, by Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)
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Photo: Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd) -- Photographer · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
Same kind of clue, elsewhere
Dark streaks on the surviving corniceHow long does weathering like this take, and does any of it predate 1876?
Mature trees on a former swampHow do you get a mature woodland on a swamp in two years?
An established lawn and potted palmsWas the ground freshly made, or already settled?
Young, thin trees: a contrary detailIf the planting was new, was the ground new too, or was an older site cleared and replanted?
Mature trees around the survivorWas the park landscape older than the fair, and was the building too?
Full canopy along the Grand BasinHow many mature trees were moved, and from where?