P. T. Barnum, “The Greatest Showman,”in Nashville

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Nearly 40 years before becoming “Sulphur Dell”, the low-lying area north of Nashville’s downtown was called Sulphur Spring Bottom. It had a natural salt lick and sulphur spring, and many years before the city was founded, the area teemed with wildlife, especially buffalo and deer who came to lick the mineral salt.
It was there baseball found its home, evacuated 100 years later, and then reclaimed in 2015 when the Nashville Sounds opened their new ballpark.

But in 1872, wild animals returned in the form of one of P. T. Barnum’s excursions named his “World’s Fair.” In this episode, I tell if that event and Barnum’s legacy in show business.

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