Early Days as Market Street
Early Days as Market Street Nashville Public Library and Archives Drawing of Market Street sometime in the 19th Century The street we know today as "2nd Ave" has seen a lot of time pass over the years, but first with its original name of "Market Street". UPDATE from this actually; I recently read that in Nashville's early, early days (pre-statehood), the street was first "Main Street", pretty generic. But was then named "Market" when the first store was opened in 1786. The land that would eventually expand to add more businesses and buildings to the street was first purchased in 1784 for about 4 English Pounds, and if I did my Google search and conversions right, that's equal to roughly £600 today, or a little over $800. Still seems like a steal, I think. Page from the original plan of Nashville, with written-in businesses from the 20th century The land was dubbed "Market Street" on the original plan of the Town of Nashville,