Before 1949, several pumps around Nashville supplied water to families without wells and, more importantly, helped fight fires. The old pump on the town square and two pumps near the Courthouse are believed to date to about 1800. In 1940, during the town’s celebration of its new water system bringing water from Ogle Lake in Brown County State Park, the “Old Town Pump” was ceremoniously laid to rest with an elaborate funeral and burial organized by Harry “Bud” Austin, owner of the leather shop. The observances included a period of lying in state, an old horse-drawn hearse borrowed from William Mullenix of Spencer, professional mourners because no one regretted the pump’s passing, James Austin of the United Methodist Church serving as parson, Mrs. Richard “Cotton” Campbell and Mrs. Oliver “Lucille” Shipley as mourners, and the Courthouse Bell tolled 60 times to represent the pump’s age. The ceremony was followed by square dancing and a free movie near the Community Club Building, and as the celebration ended, someone called the whole affair an appropriate celebration of a very worthwhile project. The pump and pump house were reconstructed in 2017 courtesy of the Rotary Club of Brown County.