Person
Nashville
Tennessee (TN)est. 1779pop. 689,447/NASH-vil/
The meaning
“Nash's town”
How it got the name
Settlers who arrived at the Cumberland bluffs in 1779 named their fort for Francis Nash, a North Carolina brigadier general killed two years earlier at the Battle of Germantown. The -ville suffix, imported from French, was a fashionable American ending in the revolutionary decades.
Former names
- Fort Nashborough
- Nashville