French Lick
French Lick, or the Big Salt Springs, on the Cumberland River, was located between the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. The area was a hunting ground for many tribes, including the Shawnees. In the late 1600’s and early 1700’s, French traders from Canada established a trading post set into a high bluff along the Cumberland River near a salt lick and a sulphur spring. Located north of present day downtown Nashville, the trader, Charles Charleville, built a hut and traded with the Indians and the long hunters. These long hunters would make extended hunting trips over the Appalachian Mountains, bringing back stacks of buckskins, which they sold for $1. One of the most famous of the long hunters was Daniel Boone, who may have passed through French Lick in the 1760’s. The trader later settled in the area and built a store and tavern at the location of Second Avenue N. today. Fort Nashborough was founded at the Great French Lick on the Cumberland in the winter of 1779-1780.
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