Nashville, Kentucky that is!  Dr. Wesler is wanting to locate the site of  this Nashville for a possible future field research dig.   And we, the Jackson Purchase Historical Society, have offered to help! An 1825 map of the Kentucky portion of the Jackson Purchase shows a town called Nashville sitting on the western bank of the Clarks River almost due east from Fort Jefferson on the banks of the Mississippi.  Its approximate location appears to be at 36.55 degrees latitude, 88.20 degrees longitude.  This map can be viewed by going to www.davidrumsey.com (click on directory, click on the “K”…

Dr. Kit Wesler, Speaker at Fall Meeting, November 14, 2009, Kappis Restaurant, Martin, Tennessee.  This meeting was held jointly with the West Tennessee Historical Society Dr. Wesler earned his B.A. from Washington University-St. Louis and his M.A. and Ph.D from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   Dr. Wesler is a past contributor to the Journal (Vol. X, June 1982).  He was Director of Murray State University’s Wickliffe Mounds Research Center until it became a state historic site under the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Dr. Wesler ‘s presentation was an update of his historical archaeology prospectus published in the 1982…