History of Fairgrounds

History of Fairgrounds

History of Fairgrounds

Introduction

The property of the State Fairgrounds is a property wealthy in annals, going out with back to the time before there even was a state of Tennessee or a town of Nashville. The fairgrounds are the biggest and last piece of a 640 acre tract of land belonging to an early settler, John Rains. Rains was granted that part of land by the new United States as a pay for service in the Revolutionary War, as was the made-to-order with soldiers of the Revolution. At that time, there was no state of Tennessee, and the locality was a part of North Carolina, inhabited only by the Native Americans. This perform of paying soldiers with land for their infantry service double-checked that the frontiers of the new homeland were resolved by trusted and hardy men.

Rains, initially a native of Virginia, set out with his family to assertion his land allocate along the Cumberland River, and along the way contacted up with a assembly of other Revolutionary veterans directed by James Robertson. And so on Christmas day of 1779, Rains and his family traversed the iced Cumberland River along with 200 other settlers to discovered what would become the town of Nashville. While Robertson constructed Fort Nashboro, Rains constructed another blockhouse fort in the center of his property (approximately where the public TV station is seated on Rains Road) that assisted to assist fortify the new city. Water for the Rains family came from a jump close to what is now the Nolensville Road entry to the State Fairgrounds. (nashvillecitypaper.com)

Discussion

Recently the Fair Board bound Markin Consulting to supply an assessment and recommendations for the future of the Tennessee State Fair and the fair surrounds themselves. In that report, Markin recorded three primary choices for the Tennessee State Fair: • Continue functioning the TSF as is

• Cease procedures of the TSF

• Reinvent the TSF as a factual State Fair

We seem that to extend everything “as is” would be doing again numerous errors of the past, and would finally become a economic problem on Davidson County as the fair surrounds at this time have turned down due to improper maintenance and poor management and oversight. We acquiesce that the fair and the fairgrounds are in decisive require of an overhaul of foremost proportions. As to the second choice, we manage not accept as factual this is ...