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The War Memorial Auditorium is a 2,000-seat performance hall located in Nashville, Tennessee. Built in 1925, it served as home of the Grand Ole Opry between 1939 and 1943. It is also known as the War Memorial Building, the Tennessee War Memorial, or simply the War Memorial.
January 12, 1965 (Knoxville: Knox: The home of William Blount from 1792 to his death in 1800. A Continental Congressman of the Congress of the Confederation and the Constitutional Convention where he represented North Carolina, Blount then became governor of the Southwest Territory, led Tennessee to statehood, and later served in the US Senate.
Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, closed in 1998 [58] Music Valley Wax Museum, Nashville [59] Obion County Museum, Union City, closed in 2012, collections moved to Discovery Park of Americar [60] Smoky Mountain Car Museum, Pigeon Forge [61] Soda Museum, Springfield, also known as the Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising [62]
1817 – Tennessee General Assembly relocates from Nashville to Knoxville. [7] 1818 Earl's Nashville Museum opens. [9] Population: 3,000 (approximate). [10] 1820 – Christian Church built. [5] 1822 – Nashville City Cemetery established. 1823 – Presbyterian church built. [5] 1825 – Decker & Dyer Reading Room established. [8] 1826
Fort Nashborough, also known as Fort Bluff, Bluff Station, French Lick Fort, Cumberland River Fort and other names, was the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The fort was not a military garrison.
In 1843 it became the state capital of Tennessee. In the Civil War Nashville was seized by Federal troops in 1862 and became a major Union military base. Confederate General J. B. Hood was decisively defeated in the Battle of Nashville in 1864. The city became the political, transportation, business and cultural center of the Middle Tennessee ...
It became the Nashville Children's Museum in 1945. In 1974 the museum moved to a new facility at 800 Fort Negley Boulevard, became the Cumberland Science Museum and is now known as the Adventure Science Center. [3] The building is once again called Lindsley Hall and is used by the City of Nashville for Metro Government offices. [4]
Marsh, Hannah. "Memory in World War I American Museum Exhibits" (MA thesis, Kansas State University, 2015, online) Yost, Mark (November 29, 2006). "Why Kansas City: The Great War Gets an Official Museum of Its Own". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Archived from the original on May 5, 2008