sentences:  Women made quilts, wove wool and flax into cloth, made the family clothes, carried water from a well or stream, cooked food in open fireplaces, raised the children, and nursed them when they were sick.By the time Nashville was incorporated in 1872, water powered grist mills and sawmills were scattered over the county.Each village served its own locality with at least one general store, a blacksmith shop, a church and a post office.