Davidson County, TN was founded in 1783 and includes Nashville, Madison, Inglewood, Edgefield, Bellevue, Belle Meade, Green Hills, Antioch, Old Hickory, Whites Creek, Forest Hills, Berry Hill, and Oak Hill. It hosts the capital of Tennessee in Nashville. The county was named for William Lee Davidson, a North Carolina general in the Revolutionary War.

Early settlers built Ft. Nashborough on the bluffs of the Cumberland River and that started the Nashville settlement.