Cottontown, Tennessee

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Barefoot Surrender
country Pop: 13

Rivers & Roads in Song near Cottontown

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Cottontown.

Interstate 65 13 songs Cumberland River 10 songs Highway I 40 10 songs

History of Cottontown

Old Hickory: It's Not About the Wood RoadyGoat

1918

Roll into Old Hickory and you'd swear the name is about timber or some old industrial trade. And the industry is real: in nineteen eighteen, DuPont threw up the biggest smokeless-gunpowder plant in the world right here on Hadley's Bend to feed the guns of World War One. Tens of thousands of workers, half a million pounds of powder a day. But the name has nothing to do with hickory wood or the plant. DuPont named the town for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, whose tough battlefield reputation earned him the nickname 'Old Hickory.' His Hermitage estate sits just up the road. The powder boomtown is named after a man, not a material.

15.3 mi away

Old Hickory's Cussing Parrot Crashed His Funeral RoadyGoat

1845

Andrew Jackson died at the Hermitage, his home outside Nashville, Tennessee, on June eighth, eighteen forty-five. Two days later, on June tenth, his funeral was held at the house, with mourners crowded onto the porch and out across the lawn. And by the most famous account of that day, the solemn service was nearly stolen by a parrot. Jackson had bought a grey parrot named Poll for his wife Rachel back in eighteen twenty-seven, paying twenty-five dollars for it. After Rachel died, the old president doted on the bird for the rest of his life, and somewhere along the way Poll had picked up language that did not belong at a funeral. As the crowd gathered, the parrot got worked up and let loose what one witness called perfect gusts of cuss words, swearing so loud and so long that the bird had to be carried out of the house. The tale comes from William Norment, who was a teenager at the funeral and did not set it down on paper until he was in his nineties, so historians treat it as a beloved but unverified legend. True or not, it is a fitting send-off for the most pugnacious president the country ever had.

17.1 mi away

Grand Ole Opry House

1925

The longest-running radio broadcast in American history, airing continuously since 1925, now based at the Opry House in the Opryland complex.

19.0 mi away

The Hermitage - Andrew Jackson Home

1804

The plantation home of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, who lived here from 1804 until his death in 1845.

17.1 mi away

Things to Do in Cottontown

historical 18.9 mi away
Grand Ole Opry

Country music's most famous stage since 1925. Every legend has played here.
food 22.6 mi away
Prince's Hot Chicken

The original Nashville hot chicken since 1945. The recipe was revenge. Now it's a religion.
historical 24.1 mi away
Ryman Auditorium

The Mother Church of Country Music. Original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
historical 24.0 mi away
Willie Nelson Museum

Willie's braids his guitar Trigger memorabilia and more in Nashville.
historical 24.3 mi away
Hatch Show Print

One of America's oldest letterpress shops still printing concert posters by hand since 1879.

Everything Near Cottontown

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