LOOKING BACK: Downtown in 1920s Nashville, before the highway
Submitter’s note: This is the second and final part of “Brown County Memories,” in the words of Leatha Elizabeth Seitz-Walker and published in “Brown County Remembers.”
The Taggart General Store, I remember, was on the southwest corner of Main and Van Buren opposite the Star Store. The store sold everything including clothes. The Taggart store was later owned by Martin Hopper who married Mr. Taggart’s daughter. The store became Miller Drug Store and is now the HobNob.
In those early days, Richard “Dick” Coffey was the village undertaker. William “Bill” Pittman ran the hotel on the southeast corner of Main and Van Buren, which was converted into the first Nashville House before it burned. Iv King was the hotel operator before Bill Pittman. Iv King had a livery stable just south of the hotel on Van Buren.