For PR execs in Nashville this week for the PRSA conference (and for trivia buffs in general), we've provided you some Music City facts:
- Nashville was settled in 1779 and became the permanent state capital in 1843.
- The city covers 533 square miles.
- Nashville employment grew by 2.8 percent in 1996, one of the strongest rates of any large U.S. city.
- Home sales in the Nashville area are up 2.4 percent in the first half of 1997, breaking consecutive records for the previous six years.
- 1,102,079 people live in its eight counties: Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson
- The PRSA Nashville Chapter now has 145 members, a 15 percent jump over last year's membership
- The local Yellow Pages lists 57 businesses defined as PR counselor firms.
- Andrew Jackson and James K. Polk were the 7th and 11th residents, respectively, who lived in the Nashville area.
- President Roosevelt, after drinking a cup of coffee in Nashville, coined "good to the last drop."