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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A swamp saved the view, and Tennessee built its birthday present on it. Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, at 600 James Robertson Parkway in downtown Nashville, opened on 1 June 1996 to mark the state's 200th year - an 11-acre urban state park patterned on Washington's National Mall, laid out at the foot of Capitol Hill on the soft ground of the historic French Lick, the sulphur spring whose unbuildable soil kept skyscrapers off the Capitol's northern viewline while the rest of downtown walle...