Short answers, pulled from the story.
Explorers James Robertson and John Donelson led a party of Overmountain Men to the site of French Lick in 1779. They constructed Fort Nashborough there, naming it for Francis Nash, an American Revolutionary War hero.
Before the Civil War, about 700 free Blacks lived in small enclaves in northern Nashville while more than 3,200 enslaved African Americans lived in the city during that same period. The city government owned 24 slaves by 1831 and 60 prior to the war.
Between February 13 and the 10th of May 1960, sit-ins were organized at lunch counters in downtown Nashville by the Nashville Student Movement and Nashville Christian Leadership Council. Protesters marched to city hall when Mayor Ben West said he supported desegregation of lunch counters, leading to a successful end under his leadership.
Radio announcer David Cobb ad libbed on air in 1950 that sounds listeners heard on WSM radio came from Music City, U.S.A., which coined the moniker Music City. Since the 1960s, Nashville has been the second-largest music production center in the United States with an industry contributing about $10 billion per year and providing around 56,000 jobs to the area.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 689,447 people residing in the city representing an increase of 88,225 or 14.67% over the 2010 figure. By 2020, 99% of neighborhoods were considered unaffordable for Black and Hispanic families earning median incomes.