Old Hickory, Tennessee - The Powder City of the World// PODCAST
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 Published On Jan 18, 2024

Old Hickory Village down around Nashville Tennessee - is a thriving neighborhood today, but once was a boom and busy town with a population of 35,000 - and run down to around 500 over night - which once held the largest smokeless gunpowder operation in the world - with the Du Pont company.

The diary of Lou Cretia Owen can be found and read -
Courtesy Tennessee State Library & Archives.

Lou Cretia Owen's diary
Lou Cretia Owen Papers, 1918-1919
35
ID 43261
Location: I-D-1, Folder 1
Item is in the Public Domain - l

More was written about Old Hickory - from an interesting article found at the Tennessee State Library Archives Website - titled "Old Hickory Gun Powder Plant" by Jack Humphrey - and I'll post a link below.

https://tslablog.blogspot.com/2018/08...

All music for production was used from Pixabay royalty free music - no attribution required with content ID attached - I'll come back and give attribution for each song - though not required by the license - I feel the artist deserve mention. -- I'll post attribution by 1/20/24 - thank you.

1. Beautiful Contemplation - by RomaRecord1973 - this piece was on the royalty free music there - and was a fantastic guitar part - you can find it at a couple spots in the video and audio - mainly right before the mention of spies in the local plant at 26:30-28.21
2. For When It Rains - by Juan Sanchez - used during some of the sad scenes outlining the Spanish Flu - another beautiful piece used from royalty free music on Pixabay - you can hear this at 26:30-28:21

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