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OK - when you hear the name, Nashville, Tennessee, you think Elvis. Or maybe you think Grand Ol’ Opry or Hee Haw or Dolly and Johnny and Merle. Granted, Nashville, Tennessee is the hub of Country, is where most great twangers get or got their start. But more, Nashville, Tennessee is a legendary city with hundreds of years of history and interesting development. With unique details—such as how, interestingly, Andrew Jackson’s driveway was shaped like a guitar!?! Nashville, Tennessee trivia reveals much of the character and history.
SOME GREAT NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE TRIVIA
According to the scholars, researchers, experts, and web masters and mistresses, here are some dynamic details about one of the more dynamic areas:
Nashville, Tennessee was founded on Christmas Eve (1779)!
In the same month, though almost 200 years later, a famous hotel served coffee that became a famous brand: The Maxwell House.
That coffee would take its jingle/slogan from one who drank it and commented on it, saying it was “good to the last drop.†That satisfied coffee-drinker was President Theodore Roosevelt.
Nashville, Tennessee was the first in the state to agree upon a single government, one which caters to or resides over the nearly half-million residents there.
The first American winner of the English Derby, taking first in 1881, was a thoroughbred from Nashville named Iroquois.
In Centennial Park in Nashville is a replica of the Parthenon.
Today, TV shows featuring Nashville include “Nashville Star,†with hosting songstress Leeann Rimes; American Idol finalist Mandisa is from Nashville. Tennessee; and 2005 American Idol winner Carrie Underwood plays Nashville and made one live debut on Nashville’s Grand Old Opry Radio Show.
That Grand Old Opry Radio Show is the “longest continuously-running radio program in the world.†Never missing a Friday and Saturday, it has run since 1925.
The oldest African-American architectural firm, McKissak and McKissak, is located in Nashville. The oldest African-American financial institution is also based in Nashville, Tennessee: Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company.
President Andrew Jackson had a driveway shaped like a guitar…. An actual Nashville, Tennessee musician, and a famous one at that, Webb Pierce had a swimming pool shaped like a guitar.
And if you first think music, musician, or singer when you hear or read the name Nashville, Tennessee, you are not alone…nor have you been alone for the last 135 years: The Jubilee Singers of Fisk University toured to raise money for the school by taking their replications of Negro spirituals to their audiences, making a name for Nashville as the music epicenter of the south…if not the whole United States.
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