Antioch is a community in southeastern Davidson County

Davidson County, Tennessee

Davidson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 626,681. Its county seat is Nashville.In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and...

, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, that is governed by the Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

 metropolitan government. The area is assigned to postal zip code

ZIP Code

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 37013.

History

The community takes its name from Antioch First Baptist Church, established in 1810. As recently as the 1960s Antioch was a small community catering to the needs of area farmers with amenities such as a feed mill. Adjacent to Bakertown (a similar small community) it was located on the banks of Mill Creek, a minor tributary

Tributary

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 of the Cumberland River

Cumberland River

The Cumberland River is a waterway in the Southern United States. It is long. It starts in Harlan County in far southeastern Kentucky between Pine and Cumberland mountains, flows through southern Kentucky, crosses into northern Tennessee, and then curves back up into western Kentucky before...

 that rises near Nolensville

Nolensville, Tennessee

Nolensville is a town in Williamson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 3,099 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Nolensville is located at ....

, several miles to the southeast. This area has become less important over time as zoning

Zoning

Zoning is a device of land use planning used by local governments in most developed countries. The word is derived from the practice of designating permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another...

 restrictions forbidding further development on a floodplain

Floodplain

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 have limited the construction of more businesses in this area, which had started to become quite congested.

In the 1970s Antioch experienced explosive growth, largely due to the expansion of the Nashville sewer

Sanitary sewer

A sanitary sewer is a separate underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings to treatment or disposal. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas also carry industrial wastewater...

 system to the area and the availability of large amounts of former farmland, which made possible the construction of many low-rise apartment

Apartment

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 complexes, and several mobile home

Mobile home

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 communities. The area continues to experience some of the highest growth rates in Nashville-Davidson County.

Economy

The most important business concentration in Antioch is Hickory Hollow Mall

Hickory Hollow Mall

Hickory Hollow Mall is a regional indoor shopping mall in Antioch, Tennessee, a neighborhood of Nashville. The mall was built in 1978. In 1982, a JCPenney and several other stores were added. Another expansion project in 1991 resulted in a new building for Dillard's, with a mall expansion built...

, which opened in 1978 and has been renovated and expanded on several subsequent occasions. It is a regional shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 with a gross leasing area of 1107476 sq ft (102,887.9 m²), over 140 stores, and 5,795 parking spaces. Anchor store

Anchor store

In retail, an anchor store, draw tenant, anchor tenant, or key tenant is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store or a major retail chain....

s include Sears, and Macy's

Macy's

Macy's is a U.S. chain of mid-to-high range department stores. In addition to its flagship Herald Square location in New York City, the company operates over 800 stores in the United States...

. As of late 2008, the mall had seen an increase in store closures, including larger stores such as Dillard's

Dillard's

Dillard's, Inc. is a department store chain in the United States, with 330 stores in 29 states. Headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, Dillard's locations are concentrated in Texas and Florida; with a major presence in other states including Arizona, Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri,...

 and Linens 'n Things

Linens 'n Things

Linens 'n Things is an online retailer of home textiles, housewares and decorative home accessories. Until 2008, the company also did business as a big box retailer under the name Linens 'n Things, Inc., headquartered in Clifton, New Jersey, United States, and did business across the United States...

. A Publix Supermarket, Walmart Supercenter, and many new strip malls have also opened in the area. Large-scale home builders such as Beazer and Centex

Centex

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 Homes have constructed many new subdivisions.

Starwood Amphitheatre

Starwood Amphitheatre

Starwood Amphitheatre was the primary outdoor music venue in the Nashville, Tennessee area from 1985 to 2006. It was owned by Live Nation and had a capacity of 17,137...

, Nashville's former primary outdoor music venue, was located a few miles south of Antioch on the Rutherford County

Rutherford County, Tennessee

Rutherford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, it is the state's fifth-largest county by population with 262,604 people, an increase of 44.3 percent over the 2000 population of 182,023. Its county seat is Murfreesboro, which is also the geographic...

 line. The amphitheatre was closed prior to the 2007 season, and has since been demolished.

Antioch is the site of the denomination

Christian denomination

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al headquarters of the National Association of Free Will Baptists

National Association of Free Will Baptists

The National Association of Free Will Baptists is a national body of Free Will Baptist churches in the United States and Canada, organized on November 5, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee...

.National Association of Free Will Baptists