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A major west-east interstate that enters the city's West End. The highway continues through downtown Nashville, and proceeds eastward through the eastern suburbs such as Hermitage, and bypasses Percy Priest Lake. I-65: A major north-south interstate that enters downtown from southern suburbs such as Franklin and Brentwood. It passes downtown to ...
Historic Germantown is Nashville's oldest neighborhood. Immigrants from Germany began to build homes there in the 1840s. [2] The area was established as Germantown in the 1850s. The boundaries of the district are Jefferson Street, third Avenue North, Taylor Street and Eight Avenue North. [1] The area encompasses 18 city blocks. [2]
The Nashville metropolitan area (officially the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area) is a metropolitan statistical area in north-central Tennessee. Its principal city is Nashville, the capital of and largest city in Tennessee. With a population of over 2 million, it is the most populous metropolitan ...
Roubaix (a ghost town whose name was chosen in honor of Roubaix, France, the hometown of Pierre Wibaux, an investor in a local mine) Roubaix Lake, a lake located in the Black Hills (from the French city of Roubaix) Sioux Falls; Vermillion, South Dakota; West Branch Lac qui Parle River ("Lake that Speaks" River)
Old Hickory is the site of a country club, large golf course, city park, a Chamber of Commerce, and the DuPont plant, which has been mostly shut down but continues to employ a few hundred workers. The Nashville National Weather Service Forecast Office is located just to the southeast in nearby Wilson County. [6]
I-65 is maintained by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), along with all other Interstate, US, and state highways in Tennessee. In 2022, annual average daily traffic (AADT) counts ranged from 18,886 vehicles per day at the Alabama state line (which is one of the lowest traffic volumes on any mainline Interstate Highway in Tennessee) to 177,202 vehicles per day on the concurrent ...
The map is very large – the full frame measures 2.4 by 2.4 metres (8 by 8 ft). This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. The map is drawn on high-quality vellum and is set in a gilded wooden frame. The large drawings are highly detailed and use a range of expensive colors; blue, red, turquoise ...
An enlargeable basic map of Monaco. Monaco – small sovereign city-state located in Western Europe. [1] Monaco lies on the northern coast of the Mediterranean and is surrounded by France. It has the highest life expectancy at birth of any country, 89.4 years (2017 estimate). [2]