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Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census,Nashville is the most populous city in the state,21st most-populous city in the U.S.,and the fourth most populous city in the southeastern U.S. Located on the Cumberland River,the city is the center of the Nashville metropolitan area,which is one of the fastest growing in the nation.
Interstate 24 (I-24) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It runs diagonally from I-57,10 miles (16 km) south of Marion,Illinois,to Chattanooga,Tennessee,at I-75. It travels through Illinois,Kentucky,Tennessee,and Georgia. As an even-numbered Interstate,it is signed as an east–west route,though the route follows a more southeast–northwest routing,passing through Nashville,Tennessee. The numbering deviates from the standard Interstate Highway System grid,lying further north than its number would indicate west of Nashville.
The Nashville Sounds are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. They are located in Nashville,Tennessee,and are named for the city's association with the music industry,specifically the "Nashville Sound",a subgenre of country music which originated in the city and became popular in the mid-1950s. The team plays their home games at First Horizon Park,which opened in 2015 on the site of the historic Sulphur Dell ballpark. The Sounds previously played at Herschel Greer Stadium from its opening in 1978 until the end of the 2014 season. They are the oldest active professional sports franchise in Nashville.
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. It is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park,also known as the Bicentennial Mall,is an urban state park in downtown Nashville,Tennessee. The park is located northwest of the Tennessee State Capitol building and was opened on June 1,1996,to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of Tennessee’s statehood. Receiving more than 2.5 million visitors annually,it is the most visited of Tennessee's 56 state parks.
Interstate 840 (I-840),formerly State Route 840 (SR 840),is a freeway that serves as an outer bypass route around Nashville,Tennessee. Built by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT),it is also designated as Tennessee National Guard Parkway. At 77.28 miles (124.37 km) long,it is the tenth-longest auxiliary Interstate Highway in the nation. The route serves the cities of Lebanon,Murfreesboro,Franklin,and Dickson,all suburbs of Nashville.
State Route 155,mostly designated as Briley Parkway,is a major freeway and parkway beltway around Nashville,Tennessee. It is 35.1 miles (56.5 km) long.
Herschel Greer Stadium was a Minor League Baseball park in Nashville,Tennessee,on the grounds of Fort Negley,an American Civil War fortification,approximately two mi (3.2 km) south of the city's downtown district. The facility closed at the end of the 2014 baseball season and remained deserted for over four years until its demolition in 2019. Following an archaeological survey,the land is expected to be reincorporated into Fort Negley Park.
Interstate 440 (I-440) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs through Nashville,Tennessee. It serves as a southern bypass around downtown Nashville,and is located on average about three miles (4.8 km) from the center of the city. I-440 is also known locally as the Four-Forty Parkway,and is designated as the Debra K. Johnson Memorial Parkway. At a length of 7.64 miles (12.30 km),I-440 runs between I-40 and I-24,and connects to I-65 and multiple U.S. Routes. Combined,I-440 and Briley Parkway,a controlled-access segment of State Route 155 (SR 155),form a noncontiguous inner beltway around downtown Nashville.
WUBT is an American urban contemporary radio station broadcasting in the Nashville,Tennessee market,under ownership of iHeartMedia. Though the station is licensed to Russellville,Kentucky,its studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter site is in White House,Tennessee.
State Route 396,commonly referred to as Saturn Parkway,is a 4.47-mile-long (7.19 km) east–west primary state route located in the city of Spring Hill in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The entire route is a controlled-access highway,and provides direct access between the General Motors Spring Hill Manufacturing plant and Interstate 65,as well as the business district of Spring Hill. It takes its name from Saturn Corporation,a subsidiary of General Motors that operated the plant from 1990 to 2007 as its sole manufacturing facility.
Franklin Road Academy (FRA) is a private co-educational Christian school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 located in Oak Hill,Tennessee. The school was founded in 1971 and originally affiliated with the First Christian Church before it became a separate incorporated organization in 1982. Like other schools established in the period after a court ordered Nashville public schools to expanded desegregation busing,FRA has been described as segregation academy.
Interstate 40 (I-40) is part of the Interstate Highway System that spans 2,556.61 miles (4,114.46 km) from Barstow,California,to Wilmington,North Carolina. In Tennessee,I-40 traverses the entirety of the state from west to east,from the Mississippi River at the Arkansas border to the northern base of the Great Smoky Mountains at the North Carolina border. At a length of 455.28 miles (732.70 km),the Tennessee segment of I-40 is the longest of the eight states on the route,and the longest Interstate Highway in Tennessee.
Interstate 65 (I-65) runs from Ardmore north in Tennessee to just south of Franklin,Kentucky,forming part of the national highway that goes from Mobile,Alabama,to Gary,Indiana. In Tennessee the highway's official name is the Albert Arnold Gore Sr. Memorial Highway,named for Albert Gore Sr.,the former US Senator.
Sumner Archibald Cunningham was an American Confederate soldier and journalist. He was the editor of a short lived Confederate magazine called "Our Day" (1883-1884) published in New York. In 1893 he established the Confederate Veteran,a bimonthly magazine about veterans of the Confederate States Army until his death in 1913.
The Redbirds–Sounds rivalry is a Minor League Baseball rivalry between Tennessee's two Triple-A baseball teams,the Memphis Redbirds and the Nashville Sounds. The teams compete in the West Division of the International League. Their games are played at Memphis' AutoZone Park and Nashville's First Horizon Park. From 2012 to 2015,the rivalry was incorporated into a promotion called the I-40 Cup Series.
The Silliman Evans Sr. Memorial Bridges,most commonly referred to as the Silliman Evans Bridge,are a set of steel plate girder bridges which carry Interstate 24 across the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville,Tennessee. Until 2000,the bridges also carried Interstate 65. The bridges actually consists of two separate spans,which diverge into four separate spans at their southern end.
Nashville,Tennessee,has hosted Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams since the late 19th century but has never been home to a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. The city's professional baseball history dates back to 1884 with the formation of the Nashville Americans,who were charter members of the original Southern League in 1885 and played their home games at Sulphur Spring Park,later renamed Athletic Park and Sulphur Dell. This ballpark was the home of Nashville's minor league teams through 1963. Of the numerous teams to play there,the best known was the Nashville Vols,who competed from 1901 to 1963,primarily in the Southern Association.
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- ↑ "The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee on July 31, 1994 · Page 20". Newspapers.com. 1994-07-31. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
- ↑ "The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee on November 12, 1997 · Page 59". Newspapers.com. 1997-11-12. Retrieved 2018-07-15.
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