Shopping mall
Marathon Village
Restored automobile factory turned shops, studios and a small car museum.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Marathon Village in Nashville follows William Henry Collier, the engineer who built the company's first gasoline automobile engine and believed Tennessee could manufacture a whole car in-house. It traces the plant's rapid rise after its nineteen ten move into a converted cotton mill on Clinton Avenue, and the boardroom trouble that caught up with Collier once the company was expanding fastest. Listen for how a name borrowed from ancient Greece turned out to carry its own warning.
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