56 Facts About East Nashville

1. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

2. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

3. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

4. East Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to the Union in 1862, and the city became an important base for Union operations in the western theater.

5. East Nashville hosts the largest songwriter's festival in the world, Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival every spring.

6. East Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish community in North America.

7. East Nashville has more than 180 live music venues throughout the city.

8. East Nashville hosted the GRAMMY® Nominations Concert in 2012, making it the only time this event has taken place outside of LA.

9. East Nashville is known worldwide as "Music City" because WSM radio announcer David Cobb referred to Nashville with that nickname in 1950 on Red Foley's NBC radio broadcast.

10. In 1941, East Nashville was granted the first FM-broadcasting license in the US and Music City became the first to enjoy static-free radio.

11. East Nashville was founded on Christmas Day 1779 on the banks of the Cumberland River.

12. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

13. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

14. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

15. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

16. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

17. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

18. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

19. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

20. East Nashville is full of both live music venues and excellent coffee shops—and it should come as no surprise that East Nashville is no exception.

21. East Nashville launched a passenger commuter rail system called the Music City Star on September 18, 2006.

22. East Nashville is centrally located at the crossroads of three Interstate Highways: I-40, I-24, and I-65.

23. East Nashville is ranked as the 44th largest radio market in the United States.

24. East Nashville is home to cable networks Country Music Television, among others.

25. East Nashville is ranked as the 29th largest television market in the United States.

26. East Nashville is home to four historically black institutions of higher education: Fisk University, Tennessee State University, Meharry Medical College, and American Baptist College.

27. East Nashville is often labeled the "Athens of the South" due to the many colleges and universities in the city and the metropolitan area.

28. East Nashville hosts the second-oldest continually operating race track in the United States, the Fairgrounds Speedway.

29. East Nashville Sounds were established in 1978 as expansion franchise of the Double-A Southern League.

30. East Nashville is a colorful, well-known city in several different arenas.

31. East Nashville has become an increasingly popular destination for bachelor and bachelorette parties.

32. East Nashville has a vibrant music and entertainment scene spanning a variety of genres.

33. East Nashville is known for some of their famously popular Southern confections, including Goo Goo Clusters.

34. East Nashville is home to more than 300 health care companies, including Hospital Corporation of America, the world's largest private operator of hospitals.

35. East Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the northwestern portion of the Nashville Basin.

36. East Nashville elected its first female mayor, Megan Barry, on September 25, 2015.

37. In 1997, East Nashville was awarded a National Hockey League expansion team; this was named the Nashville Predators.

38. In 1963, East Nashville consolidated its government with Davidson County, forming a metropolitan government.

39. In February 1862, East Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops.

40. Town of East Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.

41. East Nashville seceded with Tennessee during the American Civil War and in 1862 became the first state capital to fall to Union troops.

42. East Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the US state of Tennessee.

43. East Nashville began to grow into a major metropolis with the onset of the Great Depression and the subsequent New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority, which provided cheap and plentiful power.

44. Since the turn of the century, East Nashville has historically been considered the hub of railway activity for the Southeast.

45. East Nashville is the largest publishing center in the Southeast and one of the top ten largest in the country.

46. East Nashville is becoming a major distribution center for books and other print media.

47. East Nashville is an angler's dream and fishing enthusiasts seek out the crystal-clear reservoirs that lie beneath Nashville area dams.

48. East Nashville is home to the American Negro Playwright Theatre, Darkhorse Theatre, and Tennessee Dance Theatre, which presents dance with a Southern theme.

49. East Nashville is home to the former Houston Oilers football team, now the Tennessee Titans, who began playing at the brand-new 67,000-seat Adelphia Coliseum stadium in 1999.

50. East Nashville is situated amid rolling hills and abundant natural vegetation.

51. East Nashville is a center of the private healthcare industry as home to Columbia-HCA, the largest operator of for-profit hospitals in the country.

52. East Nashville is laid out in a grid pattern that straddles and is oriented to the Cumberland River.

53. East Nashville hosts Tin Pan South, the largest songwriter's festival in the world.

54. East Nashville is an area of creative and artistic flair.

55. In 2011 East Nashville bought the private Cornelia Fort Airpark which was the destination of singer Patsy Cline in her 1963 fatal plane crash.

56. East Nashville is an area east of downtown Nashville in Tennessee across the Cumberland River.