The day after she graduated from high school in 1964, Parton moved to Nashville taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her.

As she grew older, Martin dated Benjamin Jackson Hagman while in high school, before being sent to the Ward-Belmont finishing school in Nashville, Tennessee.

The buzz from their performance in Nashville and the demo's popularity resulted in offers from record labels, so the band decided to drop school and move to Nashville.

* Montgomery Bell Academy, a college preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

* Peabody Demonstration School, a now-closed private school in Nashville, Tennessee

" Witherspoon attended middle school at Harding Academy and graduated from the all-girls ' Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee, during which time she was a cheerleader.

Craig Bartlett stated in an interview that the city on the show is based on large northern cities, which includes Seattle ( his hometown ), Portland, Oregon ( where he went to art school ) and New York City ( from which many landmarks were borrowed ), also with references to Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry ; as well as Hawk Mountain near Allentown, PA, as mentioned in the Sally's Comet Episode.

He attended college at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and law school at Vanderbilt University, although he did not graduate from either institution.

The first radio station in Nashville went on air in May 1922 when John " Jack " DeWitt, Jr., a 16-year-old high school student, installed a twenty-watt transmitter at Belmont.

* Nashville High School – The restoration of a 1914 school in nearby Nashville was dedicated by the State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission in June 2003.

Image: Restored high school building at Historic Washington State Park IMG_1494. JPG | Restored two-story Nashville High School building at Historic Washington Park

She attended Saint Cecilia Academy, an all-girl Catholic school in Nashville.

While on a break from school, Trenyce learned that " American Idol " would be holding auditions in Nashville, Tennessee in October 2002.

In the 1870s, the church's Freedmen's Mission, which had established mission schools for freed slaves across the South, decided to refocus its efforts on building a larger, better-equipped school in Knoxville, in part due to stiff competition from other denominations in Nashville.

McKee, who had established the first school for African-American children in Nashville in 1862.

He taught school in Culleoka, in his native Maury County, from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the editorial staff of the Nashville Tennessean.

J. Percy Priest Dam, a United States Army Corps of Engineers hydroelectric and flood control structure just east of Nashville on the Stones River ( and easily visible from Interstate 40 ) is named in his honor, as is Percy Priest Lake ( created by the dam ) and an elementary school in Forest Hills, a suburb of Nashville.

It is currently the third-largest stadium by capacity in the second tier of college football, NCAA Division I FCS, and the largest actually owned by the school itself ( Georgia State University, which uses the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, and Tennessee State University, who plays at LP Field in Nashville, rent larger stadiums used by NFL teams in their home cities ).

The school was located in downtown Nashville until 1914, when it was moved to East Nashville on Gallatin Road.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.

At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

After the election Johnson was most anxious to complete the re-establishment of civil government in Tennessee ; Union forces brought the war to an end in that state with their victory in the Battle of Nashville in December.

Wills did not fit into the popular Nashville country and western stations, although he was usually labeled " country and western ".

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

This became known as the Nashville sound which Atkins said was a label created by the media attached to a style of recording done during that period to keep country ( and their jobs ) viable.

( At the time there was only one RCA studio in Nashville, with no letter designation.

Atkins was buried at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in Nashville.

The song was written by Nashville songwriter Cy Coben, a friend of Atkins.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

At a time when television had not yet embraced country and Western music, Sullivan was adamant about featuring Nashville performers on his program.

The series was taped at WLAC-TV ( now WTVF ) and Opryland USA in Nashville.

* The Million Dollar Band: This was a jam-session segment, airing from 1980 through 1988, composed of legendary Nashville musicians Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Roy Clark, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble.

The musical version of The Nutty Professor was scheduled for a pre-Broadway tryout to open in Nashville on July 24, 2012 and played for seven weeks.

The body was placed on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad car and transported to Richmond.

The Brewers started April on a solid winning note, but suffered two big blows in their pitching rotation when Dave Bush was demoted to AAA Nashville, and Yovani Gallardo suffered a potential season ending knee injury.

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 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.

In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.

By 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a very prosperous city.