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38 unusual facts about Nashville, Tennessee


Allen Steele

Steele was introduced to science fiction fandom in his last years of high school at Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Andrea Conte

Following their marriage, she obtained a job with Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, TN, and the couple moved to Tennessee in 1975.

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Beth Slater Whitson

In 1913, Whitson and her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she and her sister, Alice, continued to write.

Brooke Annibale

Brooke Annibale (born July 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, and based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bud Hedinger

He worked at WFTV in Orlando from 1986 until 1989 and then worked at a TV station in Nashville before returning to Orlando in 1993.

Camilla Urso

In 1855 she and her parents established a residence in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cris Dishman

After this performance and being frustrated by losses, as well as the move to Nashville, Dishman filed for free agency after the 1996 season.

Doing Time for Patsy Cline

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee.

Edward Lewis Tullis

Elected as a Bishop in 1972, he presided over the Columbia, South Carolina Episcopal Area and then the Nashville, Tennessee Episcopal Area until his retirement in 1984.

Eugene Lindsay Bishop

Bishop was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Eugene Edgar Bishop (1861-1889) and Elizabeth Lindsay Crittenden Bishop.

Frank Lawrence Owsley

As an active member of the Southern Agrarians group based in Nashville, Owsley contributed "The Irrepressible Conflict" to the manifesto I'll Take My Stand (1930).

Glencoe I

After Jackson's death in 1840, Glencoe was sent to stand in Nashville, Tennessee, for a fee of $50.

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James Jackson was an Irish-American emigrant who had built up a business in Nashville and started the farm Forks of Cypress in northern Alabama.

Gopinath Kallianpur

Six years after his retirement in 2001 Professor Kallianpur moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he continues to work on mathematics.

Harry Long

He was the fifth head college football coach for the Tennessee State University Tigers located in Nashville, Tennessee and he held that position for the 1928 season.

Henry Gross

Gross moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1986 and signed a publishing deal with Pic-A-Lic Music, a company owned by Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy.

Herff-Brooks Corporation

It was a successor to the failed Marathon Motor Works of Nashville, Tennessee, and operated with some of the same personnel and equipment.

Highway of Heartache

Written and directed by Gregory Wild, the film follows the misadventures of Wynona-Sue Turnpike (Barbara Chamberlin, who also write the film’s score) on a raucous and unlikely road to Nashville superstardom.

Jim Photoglo

After his career as a pop star waned, he became a successful country music songwriter in Nashville.

Karg Brothers

The Karg Brothers are an acoustic rock duo with a country music edge based out of Nashville, TN.

Lectionary

The Roman Catholic Mass Lectionary is the basis on which many Protestant lectionaries have been based, most notably the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) and its derivatives, as organized by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT) organization located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lower Broadway

Lower Broadway is an entertainment district of Nashville, Tennessee.

Magdalene program

Magdalene is a recovery program in Nashville, Tennessee for women who have histories of substance abuse and prostitution.

Mary Engle Pennington

Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents were Henry and Sarah B. (Malony) Pennington.

Morris Frank

Frank was born in Nashville, Tennessee, as the third and youngest son of wealthy parents, John Frank and Jessie Hirsch Frank.

Nashville, California

The place was first called Nashville Bar, then Quartzville and Quartzburg, before being named for Nashville, Tennessee.

National Federation of Independent Business

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a conservative lobbying organization with its headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee and offices in Washington, D.C. USA, and in all 50 state capitals.

New King James Version

It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr.

Prior his appointment as Legal Counsel to Governor Bredesen, Cooper was an attorney and partner of the law firm, Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC based in Nashville where he dealt in corporate, constitutional and regulatory litigation.

Robert E. Lee Allen

Born in Lima, West Virginia in Tyler County, Allen attended the country schools, Fairmont Normal School, and Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.

Samuel A. McElwee

While serving in legislature he attended Nashville’s Central Tennessee College’s Law School and obtained a law degree in 1886.

Semie Moseley

In 1959, Andy moved to Nashville, Tennessee for a year to popularize the Mosrite name and sold a few to Grand Ole Opry entertainers, people, and to road musicians.

Sharon Higgins

Not long after, she took the very last train from St. Louis to the Union Train Station in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tex Morton

He toured with Pee Wee King in 1952 and recorded in Nashville in March 1953.

The Crescendos

The Crescendos were an early American rock and roll group from Nashville, Tennessee.

Todd Cerney

Cerney died in Nashville, Tennessee on March 14, 2011 from melanoma, a disease with which he had first been diagnosed with in November 2010, following a brain seizure.

Winter Meetings

In 2012, the 111th annual Baseball Winter Meetings were held in Nashville, Tennessee from December 3 – 6.


20 Years After

Filmed principally in north Alabama and southern Tennessee, the low-budget film was initially released under the title Like Moles, Like Rats, a reference to the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth.

2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

25 Minutes to Go

German singer Gunter Gabriel on his Album The Tennessee-Recordings (2003).

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Andy Husbands

iQUE became the first New England Team to become world champions of BBQ by winning the Jack Daniels World Championships in Lynchburg, Tennessee in 2010.

Appalachian dulcimer

Contemporary professional musicians who view the dulcimer as their primary instrument include Stephen Seifert of Nashville and Aaron O'Rourke of Tallahassee.

Battle of Camp Wildcat

Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's Confederates moved from Tennessee in an effort to push from Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky and gain control of the important border state.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Bob Schultz

He was shot to death at age 55 after becoming embroiled in an argument with another patron in the bar of a Nashville Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Bonnie Lou

Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.

Brad Cotter

Cotter left Silverado in 1993 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he tried to get work as a solo act and a songwriter, landing cuts by Tommy Shane Steiner and Chad Brock, in addition to recording demos.

Carroll County, Tennessee

The Carroll County Airport is a county-owned public-use airport in located four nautical miles (4.6 mi, 7.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Huntingdon, Tennessee.

Dave Serrano

Serrano returned to assistant coaching duties for 1992-94 for the Falcons before going to Tennessee, where he served two seasons as pitching coach for Rod Delmonico.

David Barnes

Dave Barnes (born 1978), singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.

Dixie Network

Marston also was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Board of Directors in 1970 Edward B. Fritts, who began his broadcast career at WENK, Union City, Tennessee, was elected President of The National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, D.C., where he led the national trade association with distinction.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Elkanah Greer

Three years later, he returned to Tennessee to marry a local girl named Anna Holcombe (whose famous sister Lucy Petway Holcombe married Francis Wilkinson Pickens, and became known during the Civil War as the "Queen of the Confederacy").

F road

Corridor F, a highway in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky

For LP Fans Only

It is a compilation of material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One, a September 1956 session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, sessions on January 10 and 11 at RCA Studios in Nashville, two more at RCA Studios in New York, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio.

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863

George Barber

George Franklin Barber (1854–1915), American architect in Knoxville, Tennessee

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

Hansjörg Göritz

2013 American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, University of Tennessee, for Rome research proposal 'Intra Murus', including studies on Louis I. Kahn's 1951 AAR residence

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

Joe M. Rodgers

He started American Constructors in 1979, which built Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the Wildhorse Saloon.

Jonathan Crompton

Crompton led Tennessee to an upset win over the unranked and 3-2 Georgia Bulldogs and was named the AT&T National Player of the Week.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Kenny Bishop

He has been a regular performer on the Gaither Homecoming video series and radio program, and has performed on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and PBS.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection

In addition to the three compact discs, The 25th Anniversary Collection includes a booklet containing photographs, a biography by Nashville journalist Robert K. Oermann and comments from band members.

Matt Fulks

Fulks started his journalism career while attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio, a producer for WSMV-TV, sports director for WAKM radio and a sports writer with the Review-Appeal.

Michael DelGiorno

His co-host Gwen Freeman succeeded him after his departure in April, 2007, but shortly afterward (February 2008) also left KFAQ, initially joining him as co-host of his Nashville program.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Nashville West

Along with the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Nashville West was among the pioneering groups of the country rock genre.

North Springs

North Springs, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Tennessee

Parke County, Indiana

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood of Fort Wayne; they designed seven Indiana courthouses, as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

Quonset

Quonset Hut Studio, an early recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Rhodes Colleges

Rhodes College, a private, four-year liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Roy Skinner

The first player to make the team was Perry Wallace, a local schoolboy star at Nashville's Pearl High School, who enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966 and first started playing for the team in 1967, becoming the Southeastern Conference's first African American varsity player.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

Tennessee Railroad

In 1991, American country music band The Desert Rose Band filmed part of their music video for the single "You Can Go Home" at the Tennessee Railroad Museum.

WATN

WATN-TV, a television station (channel 25/PSIP 24) licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States

WDEF

WDEF-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.