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.
Timothy Demonbreun: Nashville’s Man of Mystery
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.