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Middle
Tennessee
 Middle
Tennessee is a distinct portion of the state of
Tennessee, delineated according to law as well as
custom. Middle Tennessee consists of that portion of the
state east of the Tennessee River's western crossing of
the state (in which it flows northward back into
Tennessee after having flowed through northern Alabama)
and west of the dividing line between the Eastern and
Central time zones. The only exceptions to this rule are
that Hardin County, which is located on both sides of
the Tennessee River, is considered to be entirely in
West Tennessee and that Bledsoe, Cumberland, Marion and
Sequatchie counties are considered to be in East
Tennessee despite lying in the Central Time Zone.
Middle Tennessee is known for its rolling hills and
fertile stream valleys, as well as for its major city,
Nashville, which is the state capital. Other sizeable
cities in Middle Tennessee include Clarksville and
Murfreesboro. Politically, it has provided the
Democratic Party with some of its leading statesmen, and
still is largely inclined toward it, although an
increasing Republican trend has been seen in the
Nashville suburbs. Geographically it is composed
predominantly of the Nashville Basin and the Highland
Rim, although the western portion of the Cumberland
Plateau also extends into Middle Tennessee.
Middle Tennessee also has an abundance of institutions
of higher learning--most notably Vanderbilt, Belmont,
Lipscomb and Tennessee State universities in Nashville
and Tennessee Tech in Cookeville. Other prominent
universities are Austin Peay State University in
Clarksville and the University of the South in Sewanee,
and Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro,
which is the state's second largest institution of
higher learning.
Unlike the geographic designations of regions of most
U.S. states, the term Middle Tennessee has legal as well
as socioeconomic meaning. Middle Tennessee, along with
West Tennessee and East Tennessee, comprises one of the
state's three Grand Divisions. According to the
Tennessee State Constitution, no more than two of the
state supreme court's five justices can come from any
one Grand Division. A similar rule applies to certain
other commissions and boards as well, to prevent them
from showing a geographic bias.
Nashville, TN
 Nashville
is the capital and the second most populous city of the
U.S. state of Tennessee, after Memphis. It is located on
the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the
north-central part of the state. Nashville is a major
hub for the health care, music, publishing, and
transportation industries.
Nashville has a consolidated city-county government
which includes seven smaller municipalities in a
two-tier system. The population of Nashville-Davidson
County stood at 607,413 as of 2005, according to United
States Census Bureau estimates. The 2005 population of
the entire 13-county Nashville Metropolitan Statistical
Area was 1,498,836, making it the largest and
fastest-growing metropolitan area in the state.
It was the advent of the Grand
Ole Opry in 1925, combined with an already thriving
publishing industry, that positioned it to become "Music
City USA". In 1963, Nashville consolidated its
government with Davidson County and thus became the
first major city in the United States to form a
metropolitan government. Since the 1970s, the city has
experienced tremendous growth, particularly during the
economic boom of the 1990s under the leadership of Mayor
Phil Bredesen, who made urban renewal a priority, and
fostered the construction or renovation several city
landmarks, including the Country Music Hall of Fame, the
Nashville Public Library downtown, the Sommet Center,
and LP Field.
The Sommet Center (formerly Nashville Arena and Gaylord
Entertainment Center) was built as both a large concert
facility and as an enticement to lure either a National
Basketball Association or National Hockey League (NHL)
sports franchise. This was accomplished in 1997 when
Nashville was awarded an NHL expansion team which was
subsequently named the Nashville Predators. LP Field
(formerly Adelphia Coliseum) was built after the
National Football League's (NFL) Houston Oilers agreed
to move to the city in 1995. The NFL debuted in
Nashville in 1998 at Vanderbilt Stadium, and LP Field
opened in the summer of 1999. The Oilers changed their
name to the Tennessee Titans and saw a season culminate
in the Music City Miracle and a close Super Bowl game.
Today the city along the Cumberland River is a
crossroads of American culture and boomtown of the upper
South. Currently, there are many plans of building
multiple residential and business towers in the downtown
area, including the Signature Tower. If constructed,
this will be the tallest building in both Nashville and
Tennessee surpassing the BellSouth Building, and will
also become the tallest building in the USA outside of
New York and Chicago surpassing the Bank of America
Plaza in Atlanta.
Nashville has the largest metropolitan area in the state
of Tennessee, spanning several counties. The Nashville
Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses the Middle
Tennessee counties of Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson,
Dickson, Hickman, Macon, Maury, Robertson, Rutherford,
Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson, and Wilson.
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