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Germantown
Former cotton mill turned automobile factory, now brick shops, a record store and a music venue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Germantown in Nashville follows the engineer behind the only automobile ever fully built in Tennessee, William Henry Collier, and the boardroom clash that cost him the company he designed it for. You will hear how a cotton mill on Clinton Street turned into a car factory competing for a national market, and how quickly its fortunes turned in nineteen thirteen. Stand at the old factory walls, now home to a record store and a music venue, where a handful of the original cars still sit.
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