Populated Places in Davidson County, Tennessee - Belle Meade, Tennessee, Berry Hill, Tennessee, Forest Hills, Tennessee, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Hop (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Belle Meade, Tennessee, Berry Hill, Tennessee, Forest Hills, Tennessee, Goodlettsville, Tennessee, Hopewell, Davidson County, Tennessee, Joelton, Tennessee, Lakewood, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville-Davidson (balance), Tennessee, Oak Hill, Tennessee, Old Hickory, Tennessee, Pasquo, Tennessee, Ridgetop, Tennessee, Whites Creek, Tennessee. Excerpt: Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities. Reflecting the city's position in state government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for Middle Tennessee. It is most notably known as a center of the music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City." Nashville has a consolidated city county government which includes six smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. As of the 2010 census the population of the city of Nashville, not including the semi-independent municipalities, stood at 601,222. The population of Davidson County as a whole, including all municipalities, was 626,681. Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States. The 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,589,934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state. The 2010 population of the Nashville-Davidson Murfreesboro Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,670,890. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough. It was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its strategic location, accessibility as a river port, and its later status as a major railroad center. In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee. Nashville riverfront shortly after the Civil WarBy 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the