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Capital of Tennessee. More than 30 years after receiving its charter, Nashville was selected as the permanent capital of Tennessee on October 7, 1843. Several towns across Tennessee were nominated; all received votes, but Nashville and Charlotte were the top contenders. Nashville won by only one vote.
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. [d] Nashville is the 21st most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous city in ...
History of Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. LCCN 76027605. The Wayne Hand-book of Nashville, and the Tennessee Centennial + Exposition, Ft. Wayne, Ind: Wayne Publishing Company, 1897, OCLC 12548494, OL 271295M
November 24, 2015. Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
Signature. James Robertson (June 28, 1742 – September 1, 1814) was an American explorer, soldier and Indian agent, and one of the founding fathers of what became the State of Tennessee. An early companion of explorer Daniel Boone, Robertson helped establish the Watauga Association in the early 1770s, and to defend Fort Watauga from an attack ...
Timothy Demonbreun. Jacques-Timothée Boucher, Sieur de Montbrun ( / dəˈmʌmbriən /; 23 March 1731 – October 1826), anglicized as Timothy Demonbreun, was a French-Canadian fur trader, a Lieutenant in the American Revolution, and Lieutenant-Governor of the Illinois Territory. He is known as the "first citizen" of Nashville, Tennessee .
Mayors of Metropolitan Nashville. The following is a list of the mayors of Nashville after the consolidation of the municipal government with the government of Davidson County : Image. Mayor. Term. Beverly Briley. 1963–1975. Richard Fulton. 1975–1987.
John Donelson (1718–1785) was an American frontiersman, ironmaster, politician, city planner, and explorer. After founding and operating what became Washington Iron Furnace in Franklin County, Virginia for several years, he moved with his family to Middle Tennessee which was on the developing frontier. There, together with James Robertson ...