Site Of First Store
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Lardner Clark, “Merchant and Ordinary Keeper,” came from Philadelphia, Penn. in the early 1780s with ten horses packed with goods to sell. He established Nashville’s first drygoods store by 1783, on a site 30 yards east. Clark sold calicoes, unbleached muslin, thimbles, pins, liquors, and provender for horses.
Many customers traded pelts and furs for his goods. The building—which served as a store, tavern, and dwelling—faced south and was known as “the house with the piazza.”
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