Nashville, Arkansas

==Companies==
[[William T. Dillard]], founder of [[Dillard's]], opened his first department store in Nashville.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/09/business/william-t-dillard-founder-of-a-retail-chain-dies-at-87.html| title=William T. Dillard, Founder of a Retail Chain, Dies at 87| date=9 February 2002| work=The New York Times| access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref> He started his successful franchise in 1938 when, with $8,000 borrowed from his father, he opened a small store in his wife's hometown of Nashville. Aside from a short period during World War II, the Dillard Company continued operating and expanding its Nashville location. In 1948, Dillard, looking for more growth prospects, sold the Nashville store and used the money, along with some outside financing, to buy controlling interest in a store in nearby [[Texarkana metropolitan area|Texarkana]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investor.shareholder.com/dillards/history.cfm|title=Dillards – - Dillard's, Inc. – History of Dillard's, Inc.|access-date=26 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220013402/http://investor.shareholder.com/dillards/history.cfm|archive-date=20 December 2015}}</ref>

Jim Yates, founder of one of the largest privately owned [[convenience store]] chains, built his first E-Z Mart store in Nashville, Arkansas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ezmart.com/histframe.html |title=E-Z Mart |access-date=2011-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129153148/http://www.ezmart.com/histframe.html |archive-date=2011-01-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>