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timothy demonbreun

Curious Nashville: How to say ‘Demonbreun’ and 4 other unusual Tennessee pronunciations

Marianna Bacallao

June 13, 2022

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If you’re new to Nashville, and no one’s told you yet, let me be the first. That name is not pronounced the way you think.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Curious Nashville, WPLN News Tagged With: Bolivar, Cairo, Curious Nashville, Lafayette, Lebanon, pronunications, Sevier, timothy demonbreun

Timothy Demonbreun: Nashville’s Man of Mystery

Bradley George

November 5, 2012

Demonbreun Street is named for Jacques-Timothée Boucher, Sieur de Montbrun–better known as Timothy Demonbreun. His Nashville story doesn’t begin on a battlefield or a plantation. It starts in a cave, hidden below an industrial park off Lebanon Pike.

Filed Under: History, WPLN News Tagged With: betsy phillips, ray demonbreun, timothy demonbreun

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