Belmont Abbey College

Belmont Mansion was the home of Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham,[4] a well off Nashville socialite and agent. Fabricated beginning in 1849, it was a standout amongst the most expound prior to the war homes in the South, with 36 rooms and 19,000 sq ft (1,800 m2) in size. The bequest contained a craftsmanship display, studios, playing back road, sumptuous patio nurseries, aviary, lake and a zoo (which was then along these lines opened to the general population). In 1887 Acklen Cheatham sold the home to a gathering which planned to form it into a subdivision, however in 1889 the chateau and 13 sections of land of its grounds turned into the home of Belmont Seminary for Women, keep running by Miss Susan Heron and Miss Ida Hood.[5] This school converged with Ward Seminary in 1913 and was known as Ward—Belmont College, which included both a lesser school and school prep (or high) school for women.[6][7] Today it is possessed by Belmont University yet kept up by the Belmont Mansion Association, a non-benefit bunch. The chateau is open for visits and components Victorian workmanship and furniture. The water tower, gardens, with surviving gazebos and open air statuary from the Acklen period, are a school's piece campus.[8]

Nashville's first radio station

The main radio station in Nashville went on air in May 1922 when John "Jack" DeWitt, Jr., a 16-year-old secondary school understudy, introduced a twenty-watt transmitter at Belmont. The station, WDAA, was conceived when Doctor C. E. Crosland, Associate President, understood the potential publicizing quality to the school of a radio station. The WDAA program on April 18, 1922, denoted the first run through a music system was telecast in Nashville. The telecast could be heard 150 to 200 miles (320 km) from the school.[9] DeWitt later got to be WSM (AM) radio station's boss designer, 1932–1942, and president, 1947