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Area codes. 615 and 629. GNIS feature ID. 1652484 [4] Website. nashville .gov. Nashville is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. Located in Middle Tennessee, it had a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census.
96000677. Added to NRHP. June 14, 1996. Tennessee State University ( Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College ...
Green Hills is located south of downtown Nashville on Hillsboro Pike ( U.S. Highway 431 / Tennessee State Route 106 ). Green Hills is within a region extending south to Forest Hills and Williamson County and east-west to Oak Hill and Belle Meade. The neighborhood is in close proximity to three area universities – Vanderbilt, Belmont, and ...
Website. www .visitmusiccity .com. The Nashville metropolitan area (officially the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a metropolitan statistical area in north-central Tennessee. Its principal city is Nashville, the capital of and largest city in Tennessee. With a population of over 2 million, it ...
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoological garden and historic plantation farmhouse located 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Downtown Nashville. As of 2014, the zoo was middle Tennessee's top paid attraction and contained 6,230 individual animals, encompassing 339 species. The zoo's site is approximately 188 acres (76 ha) in size and is an ...
This article pertains to the history of Nashville, the state capital of Tennessee. Native Americans had not lived in the area in the century before a frontier post of Fort Nashborough was built here in 1779 by pioneers from North Carolina. In 1784 it was incorporated as a town by the North Carolina legislature; it became a city in 1806.
Old Hickory Boulevard. Old Hickory Boulevard is a historic road that encircles Nashville, Tennessee, lying entirely within Davidson County. Originally the road, aided by ferries, formed a nearly unbroken loop around the city. Today, it is interrupted by a lake and several rerouted sections, which consist of roughly 69 miles (111 km).
Between 1870 and 1900 Broadway became a political and commercial center. [1] The district is located between 2nd Avenue and 5th Avenue on Broadway Street in Downtown Nashville. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee on July 18, 1980. [2]