A magazine for the village under the water tower

Old Hickory is not a zip code in someone else’s paper. It is a planned village, begun in 1918 when DuPont and the federal government built a gunpowder works and a town on Hadley’s Bend of the Cumberland River, later renamed for Andrew Jackson. The temporary wartime housing is gone. The permanent village is still here: porch streets, a National Register historic district, and a water tower you can see from all around. Lakewood and Rayon City are part of the same story. So are the independent businesses in a ten-mile ring that keep this place in motion.

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Our job is to be first and most useful right here. We publish stories, a monthly flipbook issue, a free and searchable business directory, a combined community calendar, a moderated bulletin, and short films about this town. History, shops, events, people, schools, and the river — told like a neighbor, kept like a paper of record. The magazine is free to read. We would rather earn your attention than charge you for living here.

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We work in complement to the Historic Old Hickory Village Neighborhood Association and the Old Hickory Area Chamber of Commerce, not in competition with them. Their calendars, meetings, and member work already serve this town. We are here to help more people find that work, and to give independent businesses a free, self-managed listing neighbors can actually search.

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The Old Hickory Citizen is a Burkett & Associates LLC publication. Burkett & Associates LLC owns and publishes the magazine. When a listing, a sponsorship, or a video feature leads naturally into other marketing help, that work is offered openly, never as a surprise.

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If you can see the water tower, you already know where you are. We are glad you found us.