A small reconstruction of the 1779 frontier stockade that became the seed of Nashville, sitting on the bluff above the Cumberland on Riverfront Park. The original fort was about a kilometre upstream; this 20th-century replica was built in roughly the place where the first long flatboats from North Carolina landed at the start of 1780.
The site is unmanned and open at all hours, with interpretive panels covering the founders, the Native displacement, and the early settler-Cherokee conflicts. It's a five-minute stop with a worthwhile view of the river, and a useful corrective to the impression that Nashville is only about music — the city existed for 130 years before the Grand Ole Opry first went on air.