Nashville
Nashville names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Nashville a city, port of delivery
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, port of delivery, and the capital of the State of Tennessee; on the Cumberland river, and on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Louisville and Nashville and the Tennessee Central railroads; 233 miles E. N. E. of Memphis. This city is regarded as the most important educational center in the South, and in population is the largest city in Tennessee. It is built on undulating grounds with the exception of Capitol Hill, which is very abrupt. Business Interests. - Nashville occupies a foremost place among the manufacturing centers of the country. It is the largest hardwood flooring and flour-mixing market in the world and has the largest stove, commercial fertilizer, live stock and printing market south of the Ohio river. Other large manufacturing industries include boots and shoes, candies, cotton and burlap bags, hosiery, overalls, work shirts, collars, handkerchiefs, furniture, bricks, saddles, harness, burial caskets, and butter; and large large jobbing interests, covering practically all lines. Bank clearings for 1915, $322,901,654.15; for 1919, $863,- 911,695.91. About $100,000,000 of live stock handled in 1919. Public Interests. - The city has an area of 10 square miles; an excellent street system, and modern water and sewer systems. There is a public school enrolment of over 20,000, and annual expenditures for public education of over $450,000. The annual cost of maintaining the city government is nearly $2,000,000. Nashville is the seat of Vanderbilt George Peabody College for Teachers, Ward-Belmont College, Knapp School of Country Life, Meharry Medical College, and State Normal School for negroes. There are 22 city parks and playgrounds. and 41 hospitals, homes, and asylums. History. Nashville was settled in 1780; received its city charter in 1806; was the capital of the State in 1812-1815 and in 1826-1843; and in the latter year 4 was made the permanent State capital. It was occupied by Union troops in 1862, and was the scene of a noted battle in 1864. In 1897 the Tennessee Centennial Exposition was held near West End Park, and some of the handsome buildings were left standing . About 12 miles E. of Nashville is The Hermitage, the home of Andrew Jackson , which contains the log cabin in which he was born, and near by it his tomb. Pop . (1900) 80,- 865; (1910 ) 110,364; (1920) 118,342.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
the capital of Tennessee. It is situated on the southern bank of the Cumberland, near the center of the state. In size it is the second city of the state. It is located in the midst of pleasing hills in a region noted for fruit and general farming. The average rainfall is about forty-nine inches. An abundance of timber and coal in the surrounding region has made Nashville a manufacturing city of importance. Wagons, carriages, stoves, clothing, harness, saddles, shoes, flour, and soap enter into an annual output of $20,000,000. The city is noted as an educational center. Vanderbilt University has been liberally endowed by the Vanderbilt family. The University of Nashville, the Peabody School for Teachers, Roger Williams University, and other institutions are located here. The city maintains an efficient system of graded and high schools. Nashville was settled in 1780. It was named at first Nashborough, in honor of Governor Nash of North Carolina . The name was changed four years later. The city was made the capital of the state in 1843. During the Civil War the battle of Nashville was fought in the immediate vicinity. After Sherman had set out on his "march to the sea," General Hood, the Confederate commander, conceived the plan of marching northward, with a view to the invasion of Ohio. He was met at Nashville by General Thomas. After severe fighting, Hood was repulsed and his army was broken up. Population (1910), 106,476. See Tennessee
Nashville BATTLE OF, a desperate battle fought near Nashville
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BATTLE OF, a desperate battle fought near Nashville , Tenn., Dec. 15-16, 1864. In November of that year, Atlanta having been taken, the Confederate General Hood invaded Tennessee. On Nov. 30, he advanced against Nashville, where he shut up a National force under General Thomas for two weeks. The latter then sallied out and in a terrible conflict of two days defeated the Confederates. The Union loss was 400 killed and 1,740 wounded; the total Confederate loss was estimated at 15,000.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both accounts sell Nashville as the South's educational centre and a hardwood-flooring, stove and flour town; neither could mention what would define it, since WSM radio's Grand Ole Opry began broadcasting only in 1925, four years after Collier's wrote. Country music recording along Music Row from the 1950s made "Music City" the city's global identity, while manufacturing gave way to health care (HCA is headquartered there), insurance and tourism. The 10 square miles and 118,342 people of 1920 became roughly 525 square miles and some 690,000 after Nashville and Davidson County merged in 1963 in one of the first US metropolitan consolidations; the metro area now holds about two million. Two other corrections: the 1897 Exposition's most famous leftover, the full-scale Parthenon replica, was rebuilt in concrete and still stands, and Andrew Jackson was not born in the log building at the Hermitage, as Collier's states, but in the Carolina backcountry.
Written for this edition, 2026.