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[5] The street was named in honor of U.S President Thomas Jefferson. [5] After the war, Fisk University was established here and Fort Gilliam became the site of its main building, Jubilee Hall, constructed in 1872. [5] [6] The campus of Tennessee State University was built across Hadley Park, on the western tip of Jefferson Street. [6]
1849 – Merchants' Library and Reading Room [8] and Tennessee Historical Society founded. [12] 1850 June: Nashville Convention held. [3] Suspension bridge built over the Cumberland River. [5] Population: 10,165. [11] 1851 Nashville Gas Light Company in operation. [5] Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway starts operating. 1852
The first Prince's Hot Chicken Shack originated at the corner of Jefferson Street and 28th Avenue in 1945. [37] Jefferson Street became a destination for jazz and blues musicians, [37] and remained so until the federal government split the area by construction of Interstate 40 in the late 1960s. [52]
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The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music (U of Georgia Press, 2015). Houston, Benjamin. The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City. (U of Georgia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0820343273 excerpt; Klein, Maury. History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (UP of Kentucky, 2014). Kyriakoudes ...
These farmers moved to outlying towns founded after St. Louis, including Carondelet (originally called Delor's Village or Vide Poche), which was founded in 1767 by an ex-naval officer near the mouth of the River Des Peres. [38] The village in 1796 had 181 residents, and it normally produced food surpluses for the area. [39]
Founded: 1907 Abe Doumar invented the world's first ice cream rolling machine in 1905, and it's still functioning at the most enduring location of his ice cream stands, which opened in 1907 and ...