Grinder's Stand

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Grinder's Stand was the tavern located on the historic Natchez Trace where Meriwether Lewis died. It can be visited today in its replica condition at the Meriwether Lewis State Park, located on the Natchez Trace south of Nashville, Tennessee, southwest of Columbia, Tennessee, and east of Hohenwald, Tennessee.

Believed to have been established in 1807, its proprietors were Robert Evans Grinder and Priscella Knight Grinder. The original stand consisted of two rough log cabins adjoined at right angles with a dogtrot between them. Both rooms had doors facing the Natchez Trace; one room also had a door facing the dis-joined kitchen behind the stand. A barn and stable were also located on the property, although the original locations of these two buildings have not been discovered.

According to tradition, Robert Grinder sold whiskey to the Indians, whose lands came within a few feet of the cabin.

In the 1930s, the CCC built a replica cabin less than twenty feet from the remains of the original stand. The current cabin does not authentically match that of the original stand.