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Nashville was laid out and platted in 1834 with 32 lots. Some stores and blacksmith shops were erected. However, a 1916 book on the county's history reports that the stores "disappeared long ago", though the blacksmith shops lasted longer, and all that was left of the community by then was a few houses. [3] [4]
F.P. Taggart Store, also known as the Hobnob Corner Restaurant, is a historic general store located at Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. It was built between 1870 and 1875, and is a two-story, balloon frame building measuring 24 feet wide by 90 feet deep. The interior retains a number of original features including oak pane flooring. [2]: 2
In the 19th century, much of the present-day route of US 31E was a stagecoach path between Louisville and Nashville, and before that a postal route at least by 1820. [ 5 ] Originally part of the Jackson Highway , the Works Progress Administration measured the total distance on US 31E in Kentucky as 147.8 miles (237.9 km).
The schools include Brown County Middle School serving grades 6-8, and Brown County High School which serves grades 9-12. The Brown County School Corporation Administration Office, affectionately referred to as the "White House" is located in Nashville as well. [13] Nashville has a public library, a branch of the Brown County Public Library. [14]
The county covers a nominal 320 square miles (830 km 2), measuring a surveyed 16 miles (26 km) from east to west and 20 miles (32 km) from north to south. In August 1836, the land was divided into five townships of Jackson, Hamblen, Washington, Johnson, and Van Buren. Nashville, then known as Jacksonburg, was chosen as the county seat.
Some portions are served by the Lake Ridge Schools Corporation. [1] Some Gary residents in the outskirts attend schools administered by the River Forest Community School Corporation; [1] River Forest does not operate any schools in Gary. There are also two Head Start Schools operated independently funded by the government.
Helmsburg (also Helms) is an unincorporated community in southern Jackson Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1] It lies along State Road 45 north of the town of Nashville, the county seat of Brown County. [2] Its elevation is 666 feet (203 m). Although Helmsburg is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of ...
The chain was in business for a century from 1898 to 1998, in its later years as a division of Mercantile Stores Company. Castner Knott's historic flagship location on Nashville's Church Street closed in 1996, while the remaining stores were among those sold to Little Rock, Arkansas-based Dillard's, when it acquired Mercantile in 1998. [1]