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Jun 22, 1897
The balcony is completed at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, future home of the Grand Ole Opry. The extra level of seats is installed to accommodate an upcoming convention of Civil War veterans and is dubbed the Confederate Gallery
Jul 4, 1913
The town of Littlefield, Texas, is incorporated. It becomes the boyhood stomping grounds for Waylon Jennings
Jul 11, 1922
The historic Hollywood Bowl, an 18,000-seat natural amphitheater, opens in Los Angeles. Usually used for classical concerts, it also features such country acts as Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Trisha Yearwood, Tim McGraw and Shania Twain
Jul 13, 1923
A series of 50-foot letters celebrating a new subdivision in Los Angeles, HOLLYWOODLAND, is dedicated. It eventually becomes the landmark Hollywood sign, hailed in Jo Dee Messina's 1996 country hit "You're Not In Kansas Anymore"
Mar 25, 1925
Crystal Springs Dancing Pavilion opens in Fort Worth, Texas. From 1930-1936, the ramshackle club is packed nearly every Saturday night for performances by western swing pioneers Milton Brown's Musical Brownies
Jun 18, 1925
Dance band leader Francis Craig purchases a home on Whitland Avenue in Nashville. He goes on to write the 1947 pop hit "Near You," which becomes a country hit for George Jones & Tammy Wynette in 1977
Sep 19, 1927
Ernest Stoneman buys two acres of land in Galax, Virginia, for his growing family, which includes six children by the end of the month
Apr 25, 1929
The Kerrville Mountain Sun in Texas proclaims that Jimmie Rodgers is set to build a home in the city. The house is expected to cost $20,000
Dec 11, 1930
Nineteen months after Eddy Arnold's father died, the family's property is bought at auction in Jackson, Tennessee, by Obe and M.B. Latham, who re-sell it eight days later to Allan Arnold, Eddy's half-brother
Dec 19, 1930
Allan Arnold, Eddy Arnold's half-brother, purchases the family farm from Obe and M.B. Latham, who had bought it at auction eight days prior. Eddy's family becomes tenants, instead of landowners
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