{"id":311,"date":"2021-07-29T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T07:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarksvilledumpsterguys.com\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2022-02-15T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:01:08","slug":"history-of-nashville-tn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarksvilledumpsterguys.com\/history-of-nashville-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Nashville, TN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The inhabitants of the Mississippian culture were the first to live in the Nashville area<\/a>; later, the Shawnee, Cherokee and, Chickasaw peoples came to live in the area as well. In 1717, a fur trading post known as French Lick was constructed on the location by French fur traders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Henderson, a North Carolina lawyer who in 1775 acquired most of middle Tennessee and Kentucky from the Cherokees as part of the Transylvania Purchase, was a driving influence behind the area’s population and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he discovered the Cumberland Valley, he dispatched a group under James Robertson to study it. They made their home in French Lick and were joined in the spring of 1780 by another party commanded by John Donelson, who also made their home there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n