Blog Archive

‘Batman Building’ then known as the BellSouth Building is completed. Now renamed AT&T Building

Saber Tooth Tiger Bones Discovered Downtown. 11,000 years old, they provide the inspiration for the ‘Predators’ hockey team.

Abraham Lincoln Dies

Civil War Ends!

Tennessee Centennial Begins

‘Nashville’ TV Show Debuts on ABC

Tennessee Becomes the Last State to Secede From The Union and Join The Confederacy

Union General Don Carlos Buell Leads Union Troops into Nashville. They will remain there until the end of the war.

Tennessee Legislature Declares Nashville as the State Capital

Andrew Jackson purchases 425 acres of what will eventually be called ‘The Hermitage’.