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Nashville city overview
Nashville is a city in USA shaped by its region, population, local economy, landmarks, climate and civic history. This overview summarizes the city itself: where it sits, what defines it, which places anchor its identity and why it matters within the wider country.
City facts
Known forNashville, Middle Tennessee, Nashville planning base 3, Nashville planning base 4
RegionUSAUSA
Time zoneAmerica/Chicagolocal time
Founded1689historical origin
City history
18th and 19th centuries In 1689, French-Canadian trader Martin Chartier established a trading post on the Cumberland River, near the present-day site of the city.
In 1714, a group of French traders under the command of Charles Charleville established a settlement and trading post at the present location of downtown Nashville, which became known as French Lick.
In 1779, a settling party organized by Judge Richard Henderson, led by explorers James Robertson and John Donelson of Overmountain Men, traveled to the site of French Lick, and constructed Fort Nashborough.
In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.
In 1843, the city was named as the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee.
In February 1862, Nashville became the first Confederate state capital to fall to U.S. troops, and the state was occupied by the U.S.
In 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W.
In 1873, Nashville suffered another cholera epidemic, along with towns throughout Sumner County along railroad routes and the Cumberland River.
In 1894, the first chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded in the city, and it hosted the first two conventions of the organization.
His election platform focused on improving transportation, and became a 2024 referendum called Choose How You Move.
These settlers quickly established an extensive fur trading network with the local Native Americans, but by the 1740s the settlement had largely been abandoned.
Nashville 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.
For years, Nashville was considered one of the wealthiest southern capitals and a large portion of its prominence was from the iron business.
The city's significance as a shipping port and rail center made it a desirable prize for competing military forces that wanted to control the region's important river and railroad transportation routes.
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Stay overview
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Hotels & areas
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