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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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