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32 unusual facts about Nashville, Tennessee


Ben Harney

Although some sources put his birthplace as Nashville, Tennessee, according to his father's military records he was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Brad Hopkins

He currently works as a sports radio personality for WPRT-FM in Nashville.

Bronson Ray

He was Pastor of the Clear Creek Baptist Church near Versailles, Kentucky, and later Pastor at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.

Camilla Urso

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

Cordovas

Cordovas is an American band created in 2011 by musician Joe Firstman based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

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.

Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee

However, by the 1960s, the statewide diocese had offices in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, staffed by a diocesan and two suffragan bishops, one of each stationed in one of the offices (although one of the bishops, Knoxville-based William E. Sanders, was actually a bishop coadjutor).

Eugene Robert Black

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 happened, he and two cashiers rushed to Nashville, Tennessee to supply currency and credit to banks in the city and surrounding region.

Gopinath Kallianpur

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

Grafton Green

He operated a law practice in Nashville until 1910, when he was elected to be an associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

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.

James Carter and the Prisoners

Carter flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy Award ceremony and to Tennessee for the benefit concert held in Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which featured repeat performances by the performers of other numbers on the soundtrack (although Carter himself did not perform).

Jim Photoglo

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

John H. DeWitt, Jr.

John Hibbett DeWitt, Jr. was born February 20, 1906 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of judge John Hibbett DeWitt.

Karg Brothers

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

Kenneth Jernigan

Beginning at the age of six, he was educated at the Tennessee School for the Blind in Nashville, Tennessee.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dalhl-Wolfe lived many of her later years 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.

National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

(or NBCA) is an African-American Baptist body organized in 1915 as the result of a struggle to keep the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville independent.

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.

Play It Again, Charlie Brown

On the final scene, Lucy visits Schroeder again and somehow offends him about Beethoven not making it in Nashville and that he did not have the Nashville sound.

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.

Rosslyn Mountain Boys

Peter was a member of Artful Dodger before opening Wally Cleaver's Recordings in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Tommy Hannum relocated to Nashville and has been Ricky Van Shelton's band leader and an in-demand session player for some years while Peter Bonta and Rico Petrocelli, the last RMB bassist, went on to record and tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Sally Lloyd-Jones

Nashville singer Sandra McCracken's 2012 album Rain for Roots was based on the poems of Sally Lloyd-Jones.

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 Rugbys

They were then signed to Shelby Singleton's Nashville, Tennessee, record label, Amazon Records, which re-released the single "You, I" in 1969, and the song became a national hit, climbing to #24 on the Hot 100 and #21 on the Cash Box magazine charts.

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.


1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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.

2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team

Dionte Christmas scored 35 points to lead Temple past #8 Tennessee on December 13 88–72.

24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment served under generals Grant and Sherman and was engaged in the battles Stone's River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

Andrew Stahl

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

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.

Beasley-Parham House

The Beasley-Parham House is located in the vicinity of Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States.

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.

Canning Dam

Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.

Chicken Truck

The song features Anderson (in first person narration) discussing an experience of getting stuck behind a Georgia truck hauling a load of chickens (Georgia is a major poultry-producing state), on Alabama State Route 65 (a winding, 2-lane highway in Jackson County in the northeast corner of Alabama) heading to Tennessee in mid-July.

Children of Rain

At the encouragement of Music City mogul Buddy Killen, producer of R&B immortal Joe Tex and countless country stars, including Dolly Parton, Dottie West and Roger Miller, Pam and Alan Ross moved to Nashville in late August of 1969.

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.

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").

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

Fort Loudoun

Fort Loudoun Lake, a man made lake on the Tennessee River, Tennessee, United States

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

Georgia v. Smith

The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.

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

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.

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.

Lon Williams

Lon Thomas Williams (March 17, 1890 - June 1978) was an American western author, teacher, and lawyer who lived in Andersonville, Tennessee, United States.

Louise Fagan

Additional performances took place at Urban Stages, New York City, and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

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.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Nashville, North Carolina

Phil Valentine, nationally syndicated talk radio host and movie producer

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.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

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

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Shawn Sturgeon

He was a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow and studied Mexican literature and culture while living in Mexico, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Shelby Forest

Shelby Forest, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee

StumpJump 50k

The annual event takes place the first Saturday in October on the Signal Mountain, Tennessee, portion of the Cumberland Trail.

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.

The Casinos

Thomas Robert "Bob" Armstrong Jr., led the installation of the lights on multiple suspension bridges including the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Derailers

Seeking greater mainstream success, The Derailers switched to Sony’s Lucky Dog Records for their next release, Here Come the Derailers, and were paired with Nashville A-list producer Kyle Lehning.

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

West Tennessee

Two future interstates are to travel in West Tennessee: Interstate 69 and Interstate 22.

William Tripp

Billy Tripp (William Blevins Tripp) (b. 1955), Tennessee artist

Winstead House

John M. Winstead Houses, Brentwood, Tennessee, NRHP-listed, in Williamson County, Tennessee