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| History |
The Nashville Wharf, photographed shortly after the American
Civil War |
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| After the Civil War, Nashville quickly
grew into an important trade center. Its population rose from
only 16,988 in 1860 to 80,865 by 1900. |
In 1897, Nashville hosted the
Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition, a World's
Fair celebrating the 100th anniversary of Tennessee's entry
into the union. An exact replica of the Parthenon was built
for the event. The Parthenon replica is now the centerpiece
of Centennial Park. |
Nashville played a prominent
role in the U.S. civil rights movement. On February 13, 1960,
hundreds of college students launched a sit-in campaign to desegregate
lunch counters throughout the city. Although initially met with
violence and arrests, the protesters were eventually successful
in pressuring local businesses to end the practice of racial
segregation. Many of the activists involved in the Nashville
sit-ins went on to organize the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, which emerged as one of the most influential organizations
of the civil rights movement.
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| Nashville has had a metropolitan government
of a consolidated city-county since 1963, and was the first
large U.S. city to adopt this structure.
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| The Nashville Tornado of 1998 struck
the downtown area on April 16 at around 3:30 pm, causing serious
damage and blowing out hundreds of windows from skyscrapers,
raining shattered glass on the streets and closing the business
district for nearly four days. Over 300 homes were damaged,
and three cranes at the then-incomplete Nashville Coliseum were
toppled. It was one of the most serious urban tornados on record
in the U.S.
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| As the 21st century
opened, a Nashville native rose to national political prominence
when Dr. Bill Frist, formerly a transplant surgeon at the Vanderbilt
University Medical Center, became majority leader of the U.S.
Senate.
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