Nashville, capital of Tennessee, U.S., on the Cumberland River, 185 m. SW. of Louisville; a suspension bridge and railway drawbridge joins it with Edgefield suburb; it is an important railway and educational centre, the seat of the Fisk, Vanderbilt, and Nashville universities, and is actively engaged in the manufacture of cotton, tobacco, flour, paper, oil, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 81,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Nash, Thomas * Nasmith, Alexander