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The Best Attractions In Davidson County

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Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 626,681, making it the second-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Nashville, the state capital. In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, or Metro Nashville for short. Davidson County has the largest population in the 14-county Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area. Nashville has always been the region's center of commerce, industry, transportation, and cult...
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The Best Attractions In Davidson County

  • 1. Downtown Nashville Nashville
    Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee. The city is the county seat of Davidson County and is located on the Cumberland River. The city's population ranks 24th in the U.S. According to 2017 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the total consolidated city-county population stood at 691,243. The balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Davidson County, was 667,560 in 2017.Located in northern Middle Tennessee, Nashville is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in Tennessee. The 2017 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,903,045. The 2015 population of the Nashville—Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 2,027,489.Named for Francis...
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  • 2. Grand Ole Opry Nashville
    The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio barn dance on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment , it is the longest running radio broadcast in US history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, Americana, folk, and gospel music as well as comedic performances and skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and internet listeners. The Opry's current primary slogan is The Show That Made Country Music Famous. Other slogans include Home of American Music and Country's Most Famous Stage.In the 1930s, the...
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  • 3. Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Nashville
    Country music, also known as country and western , and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues. Country music often consists a lot of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars , and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.According to Lindsey Starnes, the term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-2...
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  • 4. The Johnny Cash Museum & Cafe Nashville
    The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio barn dance on WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment , it is the longest running radio broadcast in US history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, Americana, folk, and gospel music as well as comedic performances and skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and internet listeners. The Opry's current primary slogan is The Show That Made Country Music Famous. Other slogans include Home of American Music and Country's Most Famous Stage.In the 1930s, the...
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  • 5. Nelson's Green Brier Distillery Nashville
    Nelson's Green Brier Distillery is a producer of Tennessee whiskey and other spirits that was launched in 2011 and began operating a distillery in 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. The company is named after a pre-Prohibition historical distillery that operated under the ownership of the businessman Charles Nelson and then his widow in Greenbrier, Robertson County, Tennessee, from 1870 to 1909.
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  • 6. Opry Mills Nashville
    Opry Mills is a super-regional shopping mall owned by Simon Property Group, formerly by its initial owners Mills Corporation and Gaylord Entertainment. It opened in Nashville, Tennessee, in 2000 on the former site of the Opryland USA theme park. The mall is adjacent to the Grand Ole Opry House and the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.
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  • 7. Andrew Jackson's Hermitage Nashville
    The Hermitage is a historical plantation and museum located in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States, 10 miles east of downtown Nashville. The plantation was owned by Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, from 1804 until his death at the Hermitage in 1845. Jackson only lived at the property occasionally until he retired from public life in 1837. Enslaved men, women, and children, numbering nine at the plantation's purchase in 1804 and 110 at Jackson's death, worked at the Hermitage and were principally involved in growing cotton, its major cash crop. It is a National Historic Landmark.
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  • 8. Belle Meade Plantation Nashville
    Belle Meade is a city in Davidson County, Tennessee. Its total land area is 3.1 square miles , and its population was 2,912 at the time of the 2010 census.Belle Meade operates independently as a city, complete with its own regulations, a city hall, and police force, but it is also integrated with the Nashville government. Developed in part on the territory of the former Belle Meade plantations, residential areas are suburban with tree-lined streets and wooded areas. The median annual income of Belle Meade residents is $195,208, which exceeds the median annual income in the U.S.The city's history dates back to 1807, when John Harding of Virginia purchased the Dunham's Station log cabin and 250 acres on the Natchez Trace near Richland Creek. He named the property Belle Meade, which is French...
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  • 10. Antique Archaeology Nashville
    American Pickers is an American reality television series that premiered on January 18, 2010 on the History channel, produced by A&E Television Networks in collaboration with Cineflix Media.
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  • 11. Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park Nashville
    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.
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  • 12. RCA Studio B Nashville
    RCA Studio B is a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee built in 1956. Originally known simply by the name “RCA Studios”, it became notable and famous in the 1960s for being an essential factor to the development of the production style and technique known as the Nashville Sound. A sophisticated style characterized by background vocals and strings, the Nashville Sound both revived the popularity of country music and helped establish Nashville’s reputation as an international recording center. Its adjacent building, RCA Studio A, was also later central to the development of this technical artistic sound. The studio is located centrally in the historic Music Row district. Currently studio B is managed by the Country Music Hall of Fame and it runs scheduled tours of the facilit...
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  • 13. Radnor Lake State Park Nashville
    Radnor Lake State Natural Area, also known as, Radnor Lake State Park, is a popular state natural area and state park in Oak Hill, Tennessee within Nashville. The 1,332 acres nature preserve lies just outside Nashville. Five miles of unpaved trails wander through the woods surrounding the lake. Otter Creek Road runs through the middle of the park and is now closed to traffic. Visitors to Radnor Lake enjoy wildlife native to Middle Tennessee, including river otters, beavers, mink, muskrat, bobcat, coyote and the white-tailed deer. There is a visitor's center open daily.
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  • 14. Edwin and Percy Warner Parks Nashville
    Edward Emmett Dougherty, a.k.a. Edwin Dougherty was an architect in the southeastern United States. One of his best known designs was the Tennessee War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville in 1922. The work won state and national design competitions.
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