Old Hickory, Tenn

Collection

Middle District of Tennessee

Dublin Core

Title

Old Hickory, Tenn

Subject

The United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

Cities and towns

Markets

Description

Post Office, DuPont Plant, and Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory Tenn., No. 862N. Located about ten miles from Nashville is an industrial city known as Old Hickory, Tenn. It has one of the most complete rayon silk manufacturing plants in the country, also cellophane plants which leads the United States in the production of this product. U. S. Post Office (1934), located 1101 Donelson Avenue,. This one story, red brick, flat roof restrained Colonial Revival design came from the Office of the Supervising Architect, Louis A. Simon. The building is listed in the National Register as a part of the Old Hickory historic district. Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States. The Old Hickory DuPont Gunpowder plant was located at a bend in the Cumberland River near Nashville, Tennessee. The Old Hickory Gunpowder plant was the largest munitions plant in the world at the time of operation, 1918-1919, occupying some 4,700 acres and production half a million pounds of powder a day. DuPont ceased production at the Old Hickory Gunpowder at the beginning of 1919. In 1923 The Nashville Industrial Corporation sold the plant back to DuPont who would use it to manufacture rayon and cellophane. DuPont ceased the production of rayon in 1961 and the production of cellophane in 1964 after decades of success.

Publisher

Capitol News Co

Rights

No copyright issues

Type

Image; Photo

Identifier

a24740

818

GSA PC 513

Coverage

1907-1914

Old Hickory, Tenn

Collection

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