62 Facts About Nashville Tenn

Since 1963, Nashville Tenn has had a consolidated city-county government, which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system.

Nashville Tenn is considered a global city type "Gamma" by the GaWC as of 2020.

Nashville Tenn is sometimes referred to as the "Athens of the South" due to the large number of educational institutions.

Nashville Tenn quickly grew because of its strategic location as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River; and its later status as a major railroad center.

In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.

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City government of Nashville Tenn owned 24 slaves by 1831, and 60 prior to the Civil War.

For years Nashville Tenn was considered one of the wealthiest southern capitals and a large portion of its prominence was from the iron business.

In February 1862, Nashville Tenn became the first Confederate state capital to fall to Union troops, and the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war.

The Battle of Nashville was a significant Union victory and perhaps the most decisive tactical victory gained by either side in the war; it was the war's final major military action in which Tennessee regiments played a large part on both sides of the battle.

Nashville Tenn was reported to have initiated General Nathan Bedford Forrest into the vigilante organization.

In 1873, Nashville Tenn suffered another cholera epidemic, along with towns throughout Sumner County along railroad routes and the Cumberland River.

Nashville Tenn was a suspect in the assault of two white sisters.

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

In 1957 Nashville Tenn desegregated its school system using an innovative grade a year plan, in response to a class action suit Kelly vs Board of Education of Nashville Tenn.

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

Between May 1 and 7,2010, much of Nashville was extensively flooded as part of a series of 1,000 year floods throughout Middle and West Tennessee.

In 2013, Nashville Tenn was described as "Nowville" and "It City" by GQ, Forbes, and The New York Times.

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

In 2017, Nashville Tenn's economy was deemed the third fastest-growing in the nation, and the city was named the "hottest housing market in the US" by Freddie Mac realtors.

In May 2017, census estimates showed Nashville had passed Memphis to become most populated city in Tennessee.

On March 3,2020, a tornado tracked west to east, just north of the downtown Nashville Tenn area, killing at least 25 people and leaving tens of thousands without electricity.

Nashville Tenn sits at the start of the Highland Rim, a geophysical region of very hilly land.

Since 2000, Nashville Tenn has seen two urban construction booms that have yielded multiple high-rises.

The largest snow event since 2003 was on January 22,2016, when Nashville Tenn received 8 inches of snow in a single storm; the largest overall was 17 inches, received on March 17,1892, during the St Patrick's Day Snowstorm.

In 2008, Nashville Tenn was ranked as the 18th-worst spring allergy city in the US by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

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Nashville Tenn's foreign-born population more than tripled in size between 1990 and 2000, increasing from 12,662 to 39,596.

Nashville Tenn has the largest Kurdish community in the United States, numbering approximately 15,000.

The 2020 population of the Nashville Tenn-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area was 2,118,233.

The Nashville Tenn region was said to be the "Number One" Metro Area for Professional and Business Service Jobs in America, ; Zillow said it had the "hottest Housing market in America".

Many popular food companies are based in Nashville including Captain D's, Hunt Brothers Pizza, O'Charley's, Logan's Roadhouse, J Alexander's, and Stoney River Legendary Steaks.

Nashville Tenn has been the headquarters of guitar company Gibson since 1984.

Since the 1960s, Nashville Tenn has been the second-largest music production center in the United States.

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

Nashville Tenn is known for Southern confections, including Goo Goo Clusters, which have been made in Nashville Tenn since 1912.

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

Nashville Tenn has an active theatre scene and is home to several professional and community theatre companies.

Many visitors to Nashville Tenn attend live performances of the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest-running live radio show.

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

In 2017, Nashville Tenn Scene counted 33 bachelorette parties on Lower Broadway in less than two hours on a Friday night, and stated that the actual number was likely higher.

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

Nashville Tenn has additionally earned the moniker "The Hot Chicken Capital", becoming known for the local specialty cuisine hot chicken.

The city is home to two minor league teams: the Nashville Tenn Sounds of Minor League Baseball's International League and the Music City Fire arena football team of the American Arena League.

Nashville Tenn Sounds baseball team was established in 1978 as an expansion franchise of the Double-A Southern League.

Nashville Tenn is the home of the second-oldest continually operating racetrack in the United States, the Fairgrounds Speedway.

Nashville Tenn Invitational was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1944 to 1946.

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Nashville Tenn is home to the NCAA college football Music City Bowl.

Nashville Tenn Rollergirls are Nashville Tenn's only women's flat track roller derby team.

Nashville Tenn Kangaroos are an Australian Rules Football team that compete in the United States Australian Football League.

Nashville Tenn has been a Democratic stronghold since at least the end of Reconstruction, and has remained staunchly Democratic even as the state as a whole has trended strongly Republican.

From 2003 to 2013, a sliver of southwestern Nashville Tenn was located in the 7th District, represented by Republican Marsha Blackburn.

Nashville Tenn has been labeled the "Athens of the South" due to the many colleges and universities in the metropolitan area.

Daily newspaper in Nashville is The Tennessean, which until 1998 competed with the Nashville Banner, another daily paper that was housed in the same building under a joint-operating agreement.

The Nashville Tenn Pride is aimed towards community development and serves Nashville Tenn's entrepreneurial population.

Nashville Tenn Post is an online news source covering business, politics and sports.

Nashville Tenn is home to eleven broadcast television stations, although most households are served by direct cable network connections.

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

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

Several FM and AM radio stations broadcast in the Nashville Tenn area, including five college stations and one LPFM community radio station.

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

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

Nashville Tenn is considered a gateway city for rail and air traffic for the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion.

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