Timeline of Nashville, Tennessee

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

Prior to 19th century

• 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
  • Town incorporated.[2]
  • Joseph Coleman becomes mayor.[2]
• 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
  • Earl's Nashville Museum opens.[8]
  • Population: 3,000 (approximate).[9]
• 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
  • Public school system inaugurated.[4]
  • Davidson County Jail built.[4]
• 1854
  • Southern Methodist Publishing House headquartered in Nashville.[14]
  • 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.[15]
  • Fort Negley built.
• 1863 – St. Mary's Catholic Orphan Asylum founded.[4]
• 1864 – December 15–16: Battle of Nashville.
• 1865 – Fisk Free Colored School,[16] Ward Seminary for Young Ladies,[15] and Earhart's Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College established.[4]
• 1866 – Central Tennessee College founded.[15]
• 1867
  • Montgomery Bell Academy opens.[2]
  • Nashville Lyceum Association incorporated.[17]
• 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,[15] Library Association,[7] and Nashville Saddlery Company established.[18]
• 1873 – Vanderbilt University established.
• 1874 – Hebrew temple and First Cumberland Presbyterian Church built.[4]
• 1876 – Nashville Banner newspaper begins publication.[19]
• 1880 – Population: 43,350.[10]
• 1884 – Nashville Athletic Club formed.
• 1885 – Industrial School[2] and Query Club (women's group) established.[20]
• 1889
  • The Hermitage museum opens.
  • Boscobel College for Young Ladies established.[15]
  • Peabody Normal College active.[21]
• 1890 – Population: 76,168.[10]
• 1891 – Nashville Bible School founded.
• 1892
  • March 17: St. Patrick's Day Snowstorm dumps 17 inches of snow on the city.[22]
  • Union Gospel Tabernacle built.[23]
  • Maxwell House coffee introduced.
• 1894 - United Daughters of the Confederacy headquartered in Nashville.
• 1897 – Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition held.
• 1898
  • Howard Library established.
  • Tennessee State Penitentiary rebuilt.
• 1900
  • Meharry Medical College active.[24]
  • Population: 80,865.[10]
  • Polk Place demolished.

20th century

1900s-1940s

• 1904 – Carnegie Library opens.[25]
• 1905 – Centennial Club (women's group) active.[26][27]
• 1906
  • Tennessee State Fair begins.
  • Nashville Globe newspaper begins publication.[19]
• 1907 – Nashville Tennessean newspaper in publication.[19]
• 1909 – Sparkman Street Bridge opens.
• 1910
  • Nashville Art Association chartered[28]
  • Hermitage Hotel in business
  • Advance Publishing Company incorporated[29]
  • Population: 110,364[10]
• 1912 - Urban League branch established.[30]
• 1916 – Nashville Housewives League organized.[20]
• 1918
  • July 9: Great Train Wreck of 1918.
  • 1918 influenza epidemic.[31]
• 1920 – Population: 118,342.[10]
• 1922 - Nashville's first radio station, WDAA, signs on[32]
• 1925
  • War Memorial Auditorium dedicated.[33]
  • WSM radio and its Grand Ole Opry begin broadcasting.[34]
  • Belcourt Theatre built.[23]
• 1926 - WLAC radio begins broadcasting.[34]
• 1927
  • Warner Parks open.
  • WSIX radio begins broadcasting.[34]
• 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.[35]
  • Population: 174,307.[10]
• 1951
  • Ben West becomes mayor.
  • The Harpeth Hall School opens.
• 1952 - Tennessee Theatre opens.[36]
• 1953 – WSIX-TV begins broadcasting.[35]
• 1954 – WLAC-TV begins broadcasting.[35]
• 1955 - Brothers Owen and Harold Bradley establish Bradley's Film & Recording Studio, the first studio in what will become Nashville's Music Row neighborhood.
• 1957
  • Life & Casualty Tower built.
  • RCA Studios begins operation at the corner of 17th Ave. S. and Hawkins St. It will become known as RCA Studio B.[37]
• 1960
  • Nashville sit-ins for civil rights occur.[38]
  • Cheekwood Museum opens.
  • Population: 170,874.[10]
• 1961 – Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum established.
• 1962
  • WDCN-TV begins broadcasting.
  • Nashville Municipal Auditorium opens.[39]
• 1963
  • City consolidates its government with Davidson County.[40]
  • Metropolitan Council (Nashville) established.[41]
  • Beverly Briley becomes mayor.
• 1964 - American Association for State and Local History headquartered in Nashville.
• 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.
  • Grand Ole Opry House opens.
• 1975 – Richard Fulton becomes mayor.
• 1978 - The Nashville Sounds minor-league baseball team plays its inaugural season.
• 1980
  • Tennessee Performing Arts Center opens.
  • Sri Ganesha Temple established.[42]
  • Population: 455,651.[10]
• 1981 – Nashville Opera Guild chartered.
• 1982 - Foreign trade zone established.[43][44]
  • Bluebird Cafe opens [45]
• 1983 - Nissan car manufactory begins operating in nearby Smyrna.
• 1985 – Starwood Amphitheatre opens.
• 1986 – Tennessee Players founded.[29]
• 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).[46]
• 1990
  • Grassmere Wildlife Park established.[47]
  • Population: 488,374.[10]
• 1991 – Phil Bredesen becomes mayor.
• 1994
  • City website online.[48][49]
  • South Central Bell Building constructed.
  • American Airlines begins nonstop service between London and Nashville.
• 1996
  • Bicentennial Mall State Park opens.
  • Magdalene program for women, and Nashville Zoo at Grassmere established.
  • Nashville Arena built.
• 1998
  • April 15–16: Tornado.
  • After playing in Memphis for one season, the Tennessee OIlers football team plays its first Nashville games at Vanderbilt Stadium.
  • Nashville Predators ice hockey team formed.
• 1999
  • Adelphia Coliseum opens.
  • Bill Purcell becomes mayor.[50]
  • Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000 headquartered in city.[51]
• 2000 – The City Paper begins publication.

21st century

• 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.[52]
• 2007 – Karl Dean becomes mayor.[53]
• 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.[54]
• 2010
  • April–May: Flood.
  • Population: 601,222.
• 2011
  • October: Occupy Nashville begins.
  • Parnassus Books in business.[55]
• 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.
  • Megan Barry becomes mayor.
• 2020
  • Tornado outbreak of March 2-3, 2020: 22 people killed in tornadoes in Tennessee and Kentucky; the Nashville EF-3 tornado, which kills 4, north of downtown, somewhat mirrors the 1998 tornado's path
  • The Nashville bombing occurs, injuring three people and causing major damage

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
• Nashville sister city timelines: Caen, Magdeburg
• Timelines of other cities in Tennessee: Chattanooga, Clarksville, Knoxville, Memphis, Murfreesboro

References

1. Federal Writers' Project 1939.
2. Wooldridge 1890.
3. J.G.M. Ramsey (1853), The annals of Tennessee to the end of the eighteenth century, Charleston, Tenn.: J. Russell, OCLC 11827530, OL 13558206M
4. Robert 1880.
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6. "Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture". University of Tennessee Press.
7. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
8. "Research & Collections". Tennessee Historical Society. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
9. Jedidiah Morse; Richard C. Morse (1823), "Nashville", A New Universal Gazetteer (4th ed.), New Haven: S. Converse
10. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
11. Williams 1860.
12. Marshall 1881.
13. John V. Armstrong (1898), Tennessee School for the Blind: History and Prospectus, Nashville, OL 23400876M
14. "Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business", Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1986
15. Britannica 1910.
16. Crystal A. deGregory (February 17, 2015), "Nashville's Clandestine Black Schools", New York Times, Disunion
17. Acts of the State of Tennessee. 1867.
18. Catalogue and Price-List, Nashville, Tenn: Nashville Saddlery Co., 1889, OCLC 307639234, OL 25397858M
19. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
20. "List of Manuscript Collection Finding Aids". Tennessee State Library and Archives. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
21. Eben S. Stearns (1885), Historical sketch of the Normal College, at Nashville, Tenn, Cincinnati: Elm Street Printing Company, OL 24875063M
22. "St. Patrick's Day Snowstorm of 1892". National Weather Service. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
23. "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
24. 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.
25. ) Public Library, Nashville (Tenn (1904). Annual Report of Carnegie Library of Nashville, Tenn.
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27. "Nashville". Official Register and Directory of Women's Clubs in America. 1913.
28. American Art Annual. NY. 1911.
29. "Special Collections Division: Finding Aids". Nashville Public Library. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
30. National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (1912), "Establishment of Branch Organizations in the Several Cities", Bulletin, 2
31. "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)
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33. "Timeline". War Memorial Auditorium. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
34. Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Tennessee", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
35. Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Tennessee", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
36. "Movie Theaters in Nashville, TN". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
37. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
38. "Events", Civil Rights Digital Library, Athens, GA: Digital Library of Georgia (Timeline)
39. "Key Dates in the Auditorium's History". Municipal Auditorium. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
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41. "Metropolitan Council". Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
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47. Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 375+. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
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Bibliography

Published in 19th century

• John P. Campbell (1855). Nashville Business Directory. Nashville. hdl:2027/hvd.hn4gzg.
• "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, OL 23367287M
• 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 Internet Archive.
• Nashville Directory. Nashville, Tennessee: Marshall & Bruce. 1881 – via Internet Archive.
• 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, OL 271295M
• Jane Henry Thomas (1897), Old days in Nashville, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, OL 23322941M

Published in 20th century

1900s-1940s

• Centennial Album of Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville: J. Prousnitzer & Company, 1906, OL 23375657M
• Dau's blue book of selected names of Nashville and suburbs. 1907. hdl:2027/uva.x004274254.
• The charter of the city of Nashville, Nashville: McQuiddy Printing Co., 1909, OCLC 7184909, OL 13999509M
• "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, OL 24157761M
• "Nashville". Automobile Blue Book. USA. 1919. Map
• The charter of the city of Nashville, Nashville, Tenn: Ambrose, 1921, OCLC 10981902, OL 13999515M
• 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, American Guide Series, 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
• Frank Burns (1989). Robert B. Jones (ed.). Davidson County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis State University Press. OCLC 6820526. (Includes information about Nashville)
• 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.
• Carey, Bill (2000). Fortunes, Fiddles, & Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History. Franklin, Tennessee: Hillsboro Press. ISBN 1-57736-178-4.

Published in 21st century

• 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.
• Richard Pillsbury, ed. (2006). "Nashville". Geography. New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. 2. University of North Carolina Press. p. 180. OCLC 910189354.
• 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. (ed.). 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 (eds.). City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-622-4.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• 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 (eds.). Global Downtowns. City in the Twenty-First Century. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0805-4.

External links

• "Nashville/Davidson County Timeline". Nashville Public Library. Archived from the original on 2015-06-15.
• "Local History & Information". Nashville Public Library.
• "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.
• "Bibliography of Tennessee Bibliographies". Tennessee Secretary of State. Local History