Cumberland Compact Cumberland Compact The Cumberland Compact was both based on the earlier Articles of the Watauga Association composed athletic training for the first year and then the second half to get back into work present day Elizabethton, Tennessee and is a foundation document of the Tennessee State Constitution. Signed on May 13, 1780, by early settlers led to the Cumberland River area by James Robertson and John Donelson, where they settled Fort Nashborough, which would later become Nashville, Tennessee. The only surviving copy the Cumberland Compact was discovered in 1846 inside a trunk that once belonged to Samuel Barton.The copy in
On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away in Indiana" is more widely used and is falsely believed by many to be the state song. One of the leading causes of the state song's fall into obscurity was a change in its use at the Indianapolis 500 during the 1940s. "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" is played at the event as the race cars move into their starting positions, a period that receives little television coverage, while "Back Home Again in Indiana" is sung just before the start of the race and is broadcast publicly. The change to singing "Back Home Again in Indiana" at