Hilderbrand’s Trading Post

Hilderbrand’s Trading Post is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Shelby Co, Memphis, corner of Trading Post Millbranch Rd & Shelby Dr.

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Near this spot in 1819, Benjamin Hilderbrand, a trader from Natchez, Miss., built an outpost to trade with the nearby Chickasaw Indians and with numerous other tries who used the trails to reach the great hunting grounds on Nonconnah Creek. He later erected a corn mill about 100 yards to the south and, after receiving a deed to the site and some 200 acres, moved his family here in 1836, becoming one of the earliest permanent settlers in what is now the Whitehaven community.

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1823 · Mississippi. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1826 · Map of the State of Missouri And Territory of Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Mississippi (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Hilderbrand’s Trading Post

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