The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere is a zoo and historic plantation farmhouse located six miles (10 km) southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Background
The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere was founded in 1996, the result of a merger between two upstart competing facilities, The Nashville Zoo (located in nearby Ashland City) and Grassmere Wildlife Park (which was located at the zoo's present location). The resulting facility has been engineered to grow so as to take maximum advantage of its 200 acres (800,000 m²).

On the grounds of the zoo facilities, the property still maintains the original historic plantation house, called Grassmere. Visitors to the zoo can also tour this historic home and the associated farm. In addition, the zoo also sports the "Jungle Gym," the largest community-built playground of its kind in the country, created in 1998. Thousands of volunteers worked together to build a vast array of slides, cargo netting, swings and climbing structures for children.

Species Conservation Efforts
The zoo is active in numerous research and conservation activities including participating in a number of the programs in the Species Survival Plan which is managed by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association.

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