Historical Marker
Watauga Purchase
Historical marker location:
1651 West Elk Avenue, Elizabethton, Tennessee
( Marker is on West Elk Avenue (U.S. 321) west of Franklin Club Drive, on the right when traveling west.)
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, was originally built as a church in 1892. It later became one of the most famous music venues in the world and is often referred to as the "Mother Church of Country Music."