Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Prior to 19th century
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- 1780
- Fort Nashborough established.[1]
- Cumberland Compact signed; Cumberland Association formed.[1]
- 1784 – Nashville established.[2]
- 1785 – Davidson Academy incorporated.[3]
- 1789 – Methodist church built.[4]
- 1796 – Settlement becomes part of the state of Tennessee.
- 1797 – Tennessee Gazette and Mero District Advertiser newspaper begins publication.[5]
19th century
- 1806
- 1812 – Tennessee General Assembly relocates to Nashville from Knoxville.[6]
- 1813 – Nashville Library Co., Inc. established.[7]
- 1817 – Tennessee General Assembly relocates from Nashville to Knoxville.[6]
- 1818
- 1820 – Christian Church built.[4]
- 1822 – Nashville City Cemetery established.
- 1823 – Presbyterian church built.[4]
- 1825 – Decker & Dyer Reading Room established.[7]
- 1826 – Tennessee General Assembly relocates to Nashville from Murfreesboro.[6]
- 1829 – Christ Church built.[4]
- 1830 – Population: 5,566.[10]
- 1831 – Tennessee State Penitentiary built.[4]
- 1833 – Water-works established.[4]
- 1835 – Tennessee Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge organized.[11]
- 1837 – House of Industry for Females established.[4]
- 1838 – First Baptist Church built.[4]
- 1840 – Population: 6,929.[10]
- 1841 – Mechanics' Library Association formed.[7]
- 1842 – Burns & Co. in business.[12]
- 1843 – Nashville becomes capital of Tennessee.[6]
- 1844 – Tennessee School for the Blind,[13] and Mechanics Institute and Library Association established.[11]
- 1845 – Protestant Orphan Asylum established.[4]
- 1847 – St. Mary's Cathedral built.[4]
- 1849 – Merchants' Library and Reading Room[7] and Tennessee Historical Society founded.[11]
- 1850
- June: Nashville Convention held.
- Suspension bridge built over the Cumberland River.[4]
- Population: 10,165.[10]
- 1851 – Nashville Gas Light Company in operation.[4]
- 1852
- 1854 – Tennessee State Library established.[11]
- 1855 – Giers photo studio in business.
- 1856 – Church of the Assumption built.[4]
- 1857 – Davidson County Court House rebuilt.[4]
- 1858 – City Workhouse and Church of St. Ann's built.[4]
- 1859
- Tennessee State Capitol, draw-bridge, and Central Baptist Church built.[4]
- Louisville and Nashville Railroad begins operating.
- 1860 - Population: 16,988.[10]
- 1862
- City under Union control.[14]
- Fort Negley built.
- 1863 – St. Mary's Catholic Orphan Asylum founded.[4]
- 1864 – December 15–16: Battle of Nashville.
- 1865 – Fisk Free Colored School,[15] Ward Seminary for Young Ladies,[14] and Earhart's Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College established.[4]
- 1866 – Central Tennessee College founded.[14]
- 1867
- Montgomery Bell Academy opens.[2]
- Nashville Lyceum Association incorporated.[16]
- 1869 – Howard Chapel built.[4]
- 1870
- Sulphur Dell ballpark opens.
- Population: 25,865.[10]
- 1871
- Tennessee and Pacific Railroad (Lebanon-Nashville) begins operating.
- Fisk University Jubilee Singers,[14] Library Association,[7] and Nashville Saddlery Company established.[17]
- 1873 – Vanderbilt University established.
- 1874 – Hebrew temple and First Cumberland Presbyterian Church built.[4]
- 1876 – Nashville Banner newspaper begins publication.[18]
- 1880 – Population: 43,350.[10]
- 1884 – Nashville Athletic Club formed.
- 1885 – Industrial School[2] and Query Club (women's group) established.[19]
- 1889
- The Hermitage museum opens.
- Boscobel College for Young Ladies established.[14]
- Peabody Normal College active.[20]
- 1890 – Population: 76,168.[10]
- 1892 – Union Gospel Tabernacle built.[21]
- 1897 – Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition held.
- 1898
- Howard Library established.
- Tennessee State Penitentiary rebuilt.
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1900
- Meharry Medical College active.[22]
- Population: 80,865.[10]
- Polk Place demolished.
- 1904 – Carnegie Library opens.[23]
- 1905 – Centennial Club (women's group) active.[24][25]
- 1906
- Tennessee State Fair begins.
- Nashville Globe newspaper begins publication.[18]
- 1907 – Nashville Tennessean newspaper in publication.[18]
- 1909 – Sparkman Street Bridge opens.
- 1910
- Nashville Art Association chartered.[26]
- The Hermitage Hotel in business.
- Advance Publishing Company incorporated.[27]
- Population: 110,364.[10]
- 1912 - Urban League branch established.[28]
- 1916 – Nashville Housewives League organized.[19]
- 1918
- 1920 – Population: 118,342.[10]
- 1925
- Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting.
- Belcourt Theatre built.[21]
- 1927 – Warner Parks open.
- 1930
- First American National Bank formed.
- Population: 153,866.[10]
- 1931
- Nashville Children's Theatre established.
- Parthenon rebuilt.
- 1936 – Berry Field (airport) dedicated.
- 1937 – Tennessee State Museum established.
- 1940 - Population: 167,402.[10]
- 1941
- W47NV radio licensed.
- Iroquois Steeplechase begins.
- 1942 – Acuff-Rose Music and Harveys (department store) in business.
- 1946 – Nashville Symphony founded.
1950s-1990s
- 1950
- WSM-TV begins broadcasting.
- Population: 174,307.[10]
- 1951 – Ben West becomes mayor.
- 1952 - Tennessee Theatre opens.[30]
- 1953 – WSIX-TV begins broadcasting.
- 1954 – WLAC-TV begins broadcasting.
- 1957 – Life & Casualty Tower built.
- 1960
- Nashville sit-ins.
- Cheekwood Museum opens.
- Population: 170,874.[10]
- 1961 – Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum established.
- 1962 – WDCN-TV begins broadcasting.
- 1963
- City consolidates its government with Davidson County.[31]
- Metropolitan Council (Nashville) established.[32]
- Beverly Briley becomes mayor.
- 1967 – 100 Oaks Mall in business near city.
- 1968 – Third National Bank Building constructed.
- 1970 - Population: 448,003.[10]
- 1972
- Fan Fair music festival begins.
- Opryland USA opens.
- 1974 – Regions Center (Nashville) built.
- 1975 – Richard Fulton becomes mayor.
- 1980
- Tennessee Performing Arts Center opens.
- Sri Ganesha Temple established.[33]
- Population: 455,651.[10]
- 1981 – Nashville Opera Guild chartered.
- 1982 - Foreign trade zone established.[34][35]
- 1983 - Nissan car manufactory begins operating in nearby Smyrna.
- 1985 – Starwood Amphitheatre opens.
- 1986 – Tennessee Players founded.[27]
- 1987
- Nashville Airport terminal built.
- Bill Boner becomes mayor.
- 1988 – Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Nashville Pride begin.
- 1989
- Nashville Scene begins publication.
- Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in business (approximate date).[36]
- 1990
- Grassmere Wildlife Park established.[37]
- Population: 488,374.[10]
- 1991 – Phil Bredesen becomes mayor.
- 1994
- City website online.[38][39]
- South Central Bell Building constructed.
- 1996
- Bicentennial Mall State Park opens.
- Magdalene program for women, and Nashville Zoo at Grassmere established.
- Nashville Arena built.
- 1998
- April 15–16: Tornado.
- Nashville Predators ice hockey team formed.
- 1999
- Adelphia Coliseum opens.
- Bill Purcell becomes mayor.[40]
- Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 headquartered in city.[41]
21st century
- 2000 – The City Paper begins publication.
- 2001
- Tennessee Immigrant Rights Coalition headquartered in city.
- Frist Center for the Visual Arts established.
- 2002 Nashville Public Education Foundation established by Nelson C. Andrews and Thomas J. Sherrard
- 2003 – Shelby Street pedestrian bridge opens.
- 2006
- Schermerhorn Symphony Center opens.
- Viridian Tower built.
- Car manufacturer Nissan's North American headquarters in business in nearby Franklin.[42]
- 2007 – Karl Dean becomes mayor.[43]
- 2008 – Nashville for All of Us (group) organized.
- 2009
- Third Man Records in business.
- The Pinnacle at Symphony Place built.
- Music City Drum and Bugle Corps founded.
- Live on the Green begins.
- Voters reject Nashville English Only Amendment.[44]
- 2010
- April–May: Flood.
- Population: 601,222.
- 2011
- October: Occupy Nashville begins.
- Parnassus Books in business.[45]
- 2012
- March: Occupy Vanderbilt begins.
- MyCity Academy (government program) established.
- Fictional Nashville TV series makes national premiere on ABC, transfers to CMT in 2016 after being cancelled by the former and due to fan efforts
- 2013 – Music City Center opens.
- 2015 - Construction begins on 505 skyscraper.
See also
- History of Nashville, Tennessee
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Davidson County, Tennessee
- List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee
- List of companies based in Nashville
- Other cities in Tennessee
References
- 1 2 Federal Writers' Project 1939.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Wooldridge 1890.
- ↑ J.G.M. Ramsey (1853), The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century, Charleston, Tenn.: J. Russell, OCLC 11827530
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Robert 1880.
- ↑ Williams 1860, p. 90: "History of the Nashville Press"
- 1 2 3 4 "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture". University of Tennessee Press.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ "Research & Collections". Tennessee Historical Society. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Nashville", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
- 1 2 3 4 Williams 1860.
- ↑ Marshall 1881.
- ↑ John V. Armstrong (1898), Tennessee School for the Blind: History and Prospectus, Nashville
- 1 2 3 4 5 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ Crystal A. deGregory (February 17, 2015), "Nashville's Clandestine Black Schools", New York Times, Disunion
- ↑ Acts of the State of Tennessee. 1867.
- ↑ Catalogue and Price-List, Nashville, Tenn: Nashville Saddlery Co., 1889, OCLC 307639234
- 1 2 3 "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- 1 2 "List of Manuscript Collection Finding Aids". Tennessee State Library and Archives. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Eben S. Stearns (1885), Historical sketch of the Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn, Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company
- 1 2 "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Hulda M. Lyttle (1939). "A School for Negro Nurses: At the George W. Hubbard Hospital and Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee". American Journal of Nursing. 39.
- ↑ Annual Report of Carnegie Library of Nashville, Tenn. 1904.
- ↑ Doyle 1990.
- ↑ "Nashville". Official Register and Directory of Women's Clubs in America. 1913.
- ↑ American Art Annual. NY. 1911.
- 1 2 "Special Collections Division: Finding Aids". Nashville Public Library. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (1912), "Establishment of Branch Organizations in the Several Cities", Bulletin, 2
- ↑ "50 U.S. Cities and Their Stories: Nashville", American Influenza Epidemic of 1918–1919: a Digital Encyclopedia, University of Michigan, retrieved February 1, 2016 (includes timeline)
- ↑ "Movie Theaters in Nashville, TN". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Nownes 2010.
- ↑ "Metropolitan Council". Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Pluralism Project. "Hinduism in America". America's Many Religions: Timelines. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
- ↑ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Merchandise Received and Exports: Top 25, 2015", Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States, 2016
- ↑ "Nashville Eats". University of Mississippi, Southern Foodways Alliance. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ↑ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ↑ "Metro Government Website History". Metropolitan Government of Nashville. Retrieved January 30, 2016.
- ↑ "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County". Archived from the original on January 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Mayor's Office". Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Archived from the original on August 2, 2002.
- ↑ "Gore challenges Bradley to debates; moves campaign HQ to Tennessee". CNN. September 29, 1999. Archived from the original on December 5, 2006.
- ↑ "Nissan Set to Relocate", New York Times, March 9, 2006
- ↑ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, D.C.: United States Conference of Mayors. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
- ↑ David Bornstein (February 19, 2014), "Immigrants Welcome Here", New York Times
- ↑ "About Us". Parnassus Books. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
Bibliography
Published in the 19th century
- John P. Campbell (1855). Nashville Business Directory. Nashville – via HathiTrust.
- "Cumberland River: Nashville". James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1860.
- "History of the Nashville Press". Nashville City and Business Directory, For 1860–61. 5. Nashville, Tennessee: L.P. Williams & Co. 1860. p. 90.
- R.H. Long (1863), "Nashville", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, Pa.: John P. Hunt
- Singleton's Nashville business directory for 1865, Nashville: Singleton, 1865 – via Internet Archive
- Charles E. Robert. Nashville and Her Trade for 1870.
- "Nashville". Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory. Nashville: R.L. Polk & Company. 1876 – via Google Books.
- Charles Edwin Robert, ed. (1880). Nashville City Guide Book. Nashville TN: Wheeler Brothers.
- Nashville Directory. Nashville: Marshall & Bruce. 1880 – via Google Books.
- Nashville Directory. Nashville, Tennessee: Marshall & Bruce. 1881 – via Google Books.
- A.S. Colyar (October 1889). "Nashville". New England Magazine.
- John Wooldridge, ed. (1890). 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
- Jane Henry Thomas (1897), Old days in Nashville, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Published in the 20th century
1900s-1940s
- Centennial Album of Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville: J. Prousnitzer & Company, 1906
- Dau's blue book of selected names of Nashville and suburbs. 1907.
- The charter of the city of Nashville, Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1909, OCLC 7184909
- "Nashville", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Social Directory, Nashville, Tennessee. Cumberland Press. 1911.
- All about Nashville, Nashville, Tenn: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1912
- "Nashville". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919. Map
- The charter of the city of Nashville, Nashville, Tenn: Ambrose, 1921, OCLC 10981902
- F. Garvin Davenport (1937). "Cultural Life in Nashville on the Eve of the Civil War". Journal of Southern History. 3.
- Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Nashville", Tennessee: a Guide to the State, New York: Viking
- Tennessee Historical Records Survey (1940), "Davidson County (Nashville)", Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee, Nashville (19)
- William Henry McRaven (1949), Nashville, Athens of the South, Chapel Hill: Scheer & Jervis, OCLC 1397316
1950s-1990s
- Daniel R. Grant (1955). "Urban and Suburban Nashville: A Case Study in Metropolitanism". Journal of Politics. 17.
- Eleanor Graham (1957). "Nashville Community Study". Peabody Journal of Education. 35.
- Egerton, John (1979). Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780–1980. Nashville, Tennessee: PlusMedia. LCCN 79089173.
- Doyle, Don H. (1985). Nashville Since the 1920s
- Anita Shafer Goodstein (1989), Nashville, 1780-1860: from frontier to city, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, ISBN 0813009405
- Don Harrison Doyle (1990), New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0807818836
- Robert G. Spinney (1995). "Municipal Government in Nashville, Tennessee, 1938-1951: World War II and the Growth of the Public Sector". Journal of Southern History. 61.
- Lovett, Bobby L. (1999). African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780–1930: Elites and Dilemmas. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-555-1.
Published in the 21st century
- Carey, Bill (2000). Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, Tennessee: Hillsboro Press. ISBN 1-57736-178-4.
- Egerton, John; Wood, E. Thomas, eds. (2001). Nashville: An American Self-Portrait. Nashville, Tennessee: Beaten Biscuit Press. ISBN 0-9706702-1-4.
- Duke, Jan (2005). Historic Photos of Nashville. Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59652-184-1.
- Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi (2006), Camp Nashville: A Bibliography of Music City and Meat-N-Threes
- Padgett, David A. (2007). "Nashville". In Bullard, Robert D. Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity. MIT Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-262-52470-4.
- McGuire, Jim (2007). Historic Photos of the Opry: Ryman Auditorium 1974. Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59652-373-9.
- Zepp, George R. (2009). Hidden History of Nashville. Charleston, South Carolina: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-792-0.
- Haugen, Ashley Driggs (2009). Historic Photos of Nashville in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Nashville, Tennessee: Turner Publishing. ISBN 978-1-59652-539-9.
- Anthony J. Nownes, David J. Houston, and Marc Schwerdt (2010). "An assessment of the city-county consolidation of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee". In Suzanne M. Leland; Kurt Thurmaier. City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 1-58901-622-X.
- Houston, Benjamin (2012). The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-4327-3.
- Lloyd, Richard; Christens, Brian D. (2012). "Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline". In Peterson, Marina; McDonogh, Gary. Global Downtowns. City in the Twenty-First Century. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-0805-6.
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- "Nashville/Davidson County Timeline". Nashville Public Library.
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- "History of Nashville". Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.
- Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division. Materials related to Nashville, Tennessee, various dates
- Tennessee State Library and Archives. Nashville City Directories, various dates (digitized)
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Nashville, various dates.
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