The podcast features our Summer Meeting speaker, Dieter Ullrich.   Mr. Ullrich holds a Masters in Science in Library/Archival Science and a Masters in Arts in History.  He is currently the Special Collections Librarian/Archivist of the Pogue Library at Murray State University.  Among other publications, Mr. Ullrich has written “They Met At Lochridge Mills” (West Tennessee Historical Society, Vol. 51, 1998 Annual Issue, pages 1-20) and spoken about this battle before other historical groups. UPDATE: You can now listen to the podcast here on the site or via your subscription in iTunes. Listen Now:

Weakley County was created October 23, 1823 and named for Robert Weakley III, 1764-1845) Speaker of the Tennessee Senate. It is located in west Tennessee bounded on the north by Fulton and Graves counties in Kentucky, on the east by Henry County, on the south by Carroll and Gibson counties, and on the west by Obion County. The act which created the county specified that the judicial courts were to be held in the home of John Terrell, an early settler, until a court house could be built. The courts were held in Terrell’s house and that of Benjamin Bondurant…