OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Fifteen miles northeast of downtown Nashville is the town that DuPont built.
In 1918 during World War I, the federal government contracted with DuPont to build a gunpowder plant.
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“There were 30,000 employees reporting to work daily, and it is estimated that over 650,000 people were in and out of this area within that nine-month period,” Kris Brummett, official historian of the Old Hickory Area Chamber of Commerce , said.
DuPont built an entire village around the plant — with homes, schools, YMCAs, banks and a hospital…