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The history of Nashville began with the Native Americans of the Mississippian culture who lived in the area from approximately 1000 to 1500 A.D. They were the descendants of the prehistoric inhabitants who first came to the Tennessee region more than 12,000 years ago. The Mississippians hunted, grew corn, built huge earthen mounds and painted impressive pottery before being replaced by tribes such as the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Shawnee.

In 1689, French-Canadian explorer Martin Chartier (1655–1718) established a trading post on the Cumberland River, near the present-day site of Nashville, where his son Pierre Chartier was born in 1690. In 1714, a group of French traders under the command of Jean du Charleville (aka Charles Charleville) established a trading post at the present location of downtown Nashville which became known as French Lick. These settlers successfully traded fur with Native Americans, but by the 1740s the settlement had been abandoned. READ MORE