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History of Nashville

Nashville, TX RoadyGoat

Nashville, Texas, isn't a place you stumble upon by accident. It's tucked away, a little off the beaten path, and that's precisely what makes it what it is. You see, after the devastating fire in 1923, which leveled so much of the town, there was a real choice to be made: rebuild bigger, faster, like everyone else, or rebuild something different. They chose different. The timber and cattle industries kept the town afloat, but what really sets Nashville apart is its commitment to a slower pace. Maybe it's the relatively flat land, so different from the dramatic landscapes further west, or maybe it's the lingering memory of the fire, a constant reminder of what's truly important. Whatever the reason, visitors come seeking that peace, a break from the hustle. They come for the Texas Blueberry Festival, now a statewide draw, or maybe even to catch a glimpse of the legendary Bigfoot the locals whisper about. But the real reason people end up staying, the locals will tell you, isn't the blueberries or the legends. It's the quiet. It's the feeling that time moves differently here, that you can finally catch your breath.

Nashville, TX RoadyGoat

Nashville, Texas, isn't a place chasing headlines, but it has a story etched deep into its soil. You can almost feel it in the air, a quiet hum that speaks of resilience. The great fire of '23 certainly tested that, a near-total wipeout that forced folks to rebuild, brick by brick. But long before that, even before it became the county seat back in '37, it was a crossroads. General Francis Nash lent his name to the place in 1835, and it's been a Texas town ever since. Of course, some famous folks have called this area home.

Nashville, TX RoadyGoat

Nashville, Texas, carries a quiet history etched into its landscape. Established in the early days of the Republic of Texas and named for a Revolutionary War hero, it quickly became the seat of its county, a hub in the burgeoning frontier. Timber and cattle shaped the early economy, a rhythm that still pulses beneath the surface of modern life. The land here, relatively flat for Texas at just under 400 feet, allowed for easier cultivation and transport, solidifying its agricultural roots. The devastating fire of 1923 dealt a heavy blow, wiping out much of what had been built. But from the ashes rose a renewed Nashville. While the echoes of the past remain – perhaps even in the local stories of Bigfoot sightings in the surrounding woods – Nashville has always been about resilience and the enduring connection to the land. Even the Texas Blueberry Festival, which started here before growing into a statewide phenomenon, speaks to the spirit of community and a celebration of the simple things. Nashville is a place where time seems to slow down, a testament to a history that continues to shape its present.

Barbara Jordan Birthplace - Houston Fifth Ward

1936

Barbara Jordan, born in Houston's Fifth Ward, was the first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate and delivered one of the most powerful speeches in American political history during the Watergate hearings.

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Zydeco Music in Frenchtown

1920

In the 1920s, Creole families from Louisiana, known as “Creoles of Color,” migrated to Houston, establishing the neighborhood known as Frenchtown. In addition to their culture and language, they also brought their music to Houston. Zydeco, a fusion of traditional creole music and other styles, became an important form of expression for the families that settled in Frenchtown. Traditional Creole music featured an accordian backed by washboard percussion and sometimes a fiddle. This music was an integral part of social gatherings, called La-las, which served the purpose of raising funds for the community. By the 1940s, musicians blended the music, also known as La-la, with jazz and blues to form the distinctive sound known as Zydeco. As the musical form grew in popularity, several frenchtown ven-ues, including the silver slipper, began to showcase Zydeco musi-cians. Another popular club was Johnson’s, established by Charley Johnson; Lonnie Mitchell, manager of the club after Johnson’s death, also performed there. Johnson’s granddaughter, Doris McClendon, later ran the club, changing its name to the Continental Lounge and Zydeco Ballroom. A regular performer was Clifton Chenier, known as the “King of Zydeco.” An innovator, he modernized the style by adding electric guitars, a bass, drums, a saxophone and a trumpet to the more customary musical instruments. Through the years, the population of Frenchtown has become increasingly diverse. However, renewed interest in Zydeco in the late 20th century helped ensure this dynamic neighborhood will continue to preserve its rich musical and cultural heritage. (2007)

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Peacock Records

1949

DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY, THE MASS-MARKET RECORDINGS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIANS WERE GROUPED UNDER THE TERM “RACE MUSIC,” REGARDLESS OF THEIR MUSICAL GENRE, AND THESE MUSICIANS WERE MARKETED STRICTLY TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LISTENERS. IN 1949, A DECADE BEFORE THE BIRTH OF MOTOWN RECORDS, NIGHTCLUB OWNER DON D. ROBEY (1903-1975) SIGNED BLUES MUSICIAN CLARENCE “GATEMOUTH” BROWN TO A MANAGEMENT CONTRACT AND THEN DECIDED TO CREATE HIS OWN RECORD LABEL BECAUSE OF HIS DISSATISFACTION WITH THE TRADITIONAL “RACE MUSIC” MARKETING OFFERED BY THE MAJOR RECORD LABELS. ROBEY’S PEACOCK RECORDS SOON OUTGREW AN OFFICE LOCATED AT 4104 LYONS, SO HE CONVERTED HIS FORMER DINNER CLUB, THE BRONZE PEACOCK AT 2809 ERASTUS, INTO A LARGER RECORDING STUDIO AND RELOCATED IN 1953. DURING THAT SAME YEAR, ROBEY ADDED DUKE RECORDS IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE TO HIS HOLDINGS AND CREATED BACK BEAT RECORDS AS A PEACOCK SUBSIDIARY. THE ACQUISITION OF DUKE RECORDS BROUGHT ROBEY THE CONTRACTS OF SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN ARTISTS, INCLUDING WILLIE MAE “BIG MAMA” THORNTON AND JOHNNY ACE. THE BELLS OF JOY AND THE FIVE BLIND BOYS OF MISSISSIPPI WERE AMONG MANY OF PEACOCK’S GOSPEL GROUPS. MUCH OF THE SUCCESS OF DUKE-PEACOCK RECORDS CAN BE CREDITED TO THE SYSTEM OF UTILIZING NUMEROUS RECORDING STUDIOS, PRODUCTION PLANTS, AND DISTRIBUTORS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO REACH THE GREATEST NUMBER OF ARTISTS AND CUSTOMERS. THE RESULTING PROMINENCE WITHIN THE RECORD BUSINESS LED TO THE PURCHASE OF THE PEACOCK, DUKE, BACK BEAT AND SURE SHOT LABELS BY ABC DUNHILL IN 1973, AND TODAY PEACOCK RECORDS IS REMEMBERED AS A PIONEERING MINORITY RECORDING FIRM.

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Jacinto City, TX

1941

Jacinto City is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 90 and Interstate highways 10 and 610, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near the San Jacinto battleground in central Harris County. It began in 1941 when Frank Sharp built a small subdivision, which rapidly filled with shipyard workers and others employed at local steel mills and war plants. Inch Chandler, the first mayor, opened a grocery, and the community incorporated in 1947 with a population of nearly 3,800. Controversial meetings of the city council led to the formation of three separate chambers of commerce. A city hall and recreational facilities were constructed in the 1950s, and by 1966 the city, which derived its name from the San Jacinto battlefield, had two public schools, a hospital, a bank, a library, and seventeen churches. Most residents worked at local refineries. Schoolchildren attended Galena Park and Houston schools. Residents' complaints of chemical vapors in 1969 may have contributed to the construction of a waste water treatment facility, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, in 1972. State highway maps in the 1980s showed Whittier school and Furr High School at the townsite. The population rose from 6,800 in the 1950s to 9,500 by 1960, reached a high of 11,500 in 1964, and was 9,343 in 1990. The population grew to 10,302 by 2000 and to 10,553 in 2010.

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Enron Corporation

1985

Enron, a corporation headquartered in Houston, operated one of the largest natural gas transmission networks in North America, totaling over 36,000 miles, in addition to being the largest marketer of natural gas and electricity in the United States. Enron managed the world's largest portfolio of natural gas risk management contracts and pioneered innovative trading products. The company was on Fortune 's "Most Innovative" in the United States listing for several years running and reached #7 on the Fortune 500 list in 2000. Its bankruptcy in December 2001 was the largest such filing in United States history. The name Enron became synonymous with corporate greed and corruption, and its demise cost investors and employees over $70 billion in lost capitalization and retirement benefits. Enron was formed by a merger between Houston Natural Gas (HNG) and InterNorth. HNG was formed from the Houston Oil Co. in the 1920s and provided gas to retail customers in Houston. In 1976 it sold its retail gas business in Houston to concentrate on gas exploration and production and other businesses. By 1984 HNG had assets of $3.7 billion, sales of over $2 billion, and profits of $123 million. InterNorth began as Northern Natural Gas Company, organized in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930. When InterNorth, with one of the nation's premier pipeline networks with revenues of $7.5 billion in 1984, found itself the potential takeover target of corporate raiders, CEO Sam Segnar sought to buy out HNG, and a deal was announced in May 1985 in which InterNorth would acquire HNG for $2.4 billion. The arrangement stipulated that the merged entities would be known as HNG/InterNorth and be headquartered in Omaha with Segnar as chairman and CEO. However by 1986 Segnar had retired, Kenneth Lay was chairman and CEO, and the company was renamed Enron with corporate headquarters in Houston. The new company had the second largest pipeline network in the United States with over 36,000 miles of pipe stretching across the continent and north into Canada. In 1984 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission eased some of the pricing restrictions on natural gas and allowed local gas distribution companies to buy gas from anywhere and anyone. Ken Lay rapidly gained a reputation for effectiveness during this period by negotiating Enron's escape from some of the more burdensome and expensive "take-or-pay" contracts from the 1970s. In 1989 Enron created a new way to market natural gas to consumers—the Gas Bank—a concept developed by Jeff Skilling, a consultant at McKinsey & Co. The Gas Bank served as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of gas and became a success. Natural gas was now traded as a commodity, and Skilling left McKinsey for Enron's trading operation in 1991. Enron began to view itself primarily as a trader rather than as a gas producer and began to divest itself of heavy pipeline assets; by 2000 it owned five thousand fewer miles of pipe than in 1985, but its gas financial transactions represented over twenty times its pipeline capacity. Enron extended the natural gas model to become a financial trader and market maker in electric power, coal, steel, paper and pulp, water, and broadband fiber optic capacity. In 1994 Congress gave the states the authority to deregulate gas and electric utilities. The newly opened California market was a major target, and Enron spent $100 million a year to generate business there. That effort was cancelled in 1999, but Enron continued to supply wholesale power to California. The ensuing power shortage in California in 2000 rocked the state, and Enron was accused of manipulating supplies. Eventually two Enron traders were indicted for criminal fraud. In the mid-1990s it appeared that water, like natural gas, was on its way to being deregulated. In July 1998 Enron purchased Wessex Water of Great Britain for more than $2 billion and renamed the new business Azurix. However, economies of scale did not work because there were no means to int

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Floyd, George Perry, Jr.

2020

George Perry Floyd, Jr., whose death at the hands of four Minneapolis police officers caused nationwide protests against police brutality and racism, was the son of George Perry Floyd, Sr., and Larcenia (Jones) Floyd and was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on October 14, 1973. In 1977 his divorced mother relocated and raised Floyd and two sisters in Houston's Third Ward. Floyd (known as "Perry" to family members) grew up in the Cuney Homes public housing project, an impoverished African American neighborhood that experienced crime and gang-related activities. He attended Frederick Douglass Elementary School and James D. Ryan Middle School before going to Jack Yates High School. Floyd, who was well over six feet tall, excelled as a varsity high school athlete in basketball and football and was a tight end on the 1992 football team that played in the 5A Division II state championship game. He graduated from Jack Yates High School with an athletic scholarship to attend South Florida Community College in 1993. By 1995 he transferred to Texas A&M-Kingsville but did not graduate. In Houston, Floyd held a variety of different service jobs while also pursuing a career as a hip-hop artist in the entertainment industry from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Suffering from depression and drug addiction, he had a record of multiple arrests and was incarcerated. After his release, Floyd worked with a local Christian ministry, Resurrection Houston, in the effort to turn his life around and positively impact his community. He relocated to Minnesota in search of better opportunities in early 2017 and went through a rehabilitation program at an African American-owned organization known as Turning Point. He found steady employment in the security industry within the Minneapolis metropolitan area; his first job was as a security guard at a homeless shelter operated by the Salvation Army. He later worked as a driver and a bouncer at a club called Conga Latin Bistro but lost his job during the spring of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic instigated stay-at-home orders and the large-scale shutdown of businesses. On May 25, 2020, a Cup Foods grocery store employee contacted the police to report Floyd's alleged use of a counterfeit $20 bill. Four Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officers arrived and physically attempted to take him into custody resulting in his death. Bystander Darnella Frazier's video recording captured the incident that sparked an extensive investigation. MPD police officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted for causing Floyd's death due to asphyxia by pressing his knee on his neck for nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds while Floyd lay helplessly handcuffed on the ground and gasping for air as he repeatedly declared he could not breathe. Chauvin's conviction of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter brought a sentence of more than twenty-two years in state prison. The other three MPD police officers on the scene-Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng, and Thomas Lane-were also fired, criminally charged, convicted, and sentenced to prison in connection with civil rights violations that contributed to Floyd's death. From June 6, 2020, to June 9, 2020, highly-respected civil rights activists, law enforcement officers, entertainers, elected officials, community organizers, and countless others attended memorial services held for Floyd in both Minnesota and Texas. His final resting place is in Houston Memorial Gardens in Pearland, Texas. His family received a settlement for $27 million from a civil lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis. His case served as a major catalyst for widespread protest and advocacy concerning criminal justice reform measures designed to combat anti-Black violence, racial injustice, and law enforcement misconduct. Across the U. S., thousands of people actively engaged in protest activities within two weeks of the incident. Within six months, millions of Americans galvanized to for

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Things to Do in Nashville

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The Original Ninfa's on Navigation

Ninfa Laurenzo was a widow with five kids when she opened a little restaurant in her late husbands failing tortilla factory on Navigation Boulevard in 1973.…
historical 21.8 mi away
Space Center Houston

Houston we have a problem. Every word spoken between Apollo astronauts and Earth came through Mission Control at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston. The…
historical 22.0 mi away
NASA Johnson Space Center

Houston we have a problem. Where Mission Control guided Apollo 11 to the moon.
historical 12.5 mi away
Battleship Texas

The last surviving WWI-era dreadnought. Fought at D-Day and Iwo Jima.
historical 13.2 mi away
San Jacinto Monument

On April 21 1836 Sam Houston and nine hundred Texans caught Santa Annas army napping at San Jacinto and won Texas independence in eighteen minutes. Six hundred…
historical 13.2 mi away
San Jacinto Monument

Taller than the Washington Monument. Where Texas won independence in 18 minutes.
food 18.0 mi away
Killen's Barbecue

Chef Ronnie Killen's Pearland powerhouse. A classically trained chef who chose brisket over fine dining. The beef rib is absurd.
historical 9.1 mi away
The Menil Collection

World-class art museum that's completely free. Rothko Chapel next door.

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