The hotel is called the Gaylord Texan Resort. Where does the name “Gaylord” come from?
Edward Gaylord was born in 1873. The Gaylord and Dickinson families began what would become the Gaylord Entertainment Company in the Oklahoma Territory in 1903 and founded the Nashville Network, Country Music Television known as CMT, and whose holding include the Grand Ole Opry, the Opryland Hotel and Opry Mills, a massive retail and entertainment center in Nashville, Tennessee. Gaylord Entertainment also owns three Nashville radio stations and controls Christian web sites Musicforce.com and Lightsource.com and started Gaylord Entertainment which derives over 90% of its money from resort hotels that are named after Edward Gaylord.
