Nashville, Arkansas

===Dinosaur discoveries===
The largest find of [[dinosaur]] trackways in the world was discovered by [[Southern Methodist University|SMU]] [[archaeology]] graduate student [[Brad Pittman]] in a quarry north of the town in 1983, the site of a prehistoric beach.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/monsters/ms9.html |title=Nashville's Sauropod Trackway |access-date=2007-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704041356/http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/monsters/ms9.html |archive-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>Pittman, Jeffrey G. and David D. Gillett, "Tracking the Arkansas Dinosaurs," ''The Arkansas Naturalist'' (March 1984) v. 2 no. 3, pp 1–12.</ref><ref>Pittman, Jeffrey, ''Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies'', vol. XXXIV (1984), pp. 202–209</ref> A field of 5–10,000 [[sauropod]] footprints were found in a [[mudstone]] layer covering a layer of [[gypsum]].<ref>"Geologists to Make Casts of Rare Dinosaur Prints," ''Arkansas Gazette'', January 1, 1984; sec. B, p. 8, col. 5.</ref> Casts {{convert|65|ft|m}} long and {{convert|7|ft|m}} wide were made and put on permanent display, first at the courthouse and finally at the Nashville City Park, while many of the original tracks were disbursed to local museums such as the [[Mid-America Museum]] in [[Hot Springs, Arkansas|Hot Springs]] and the [[Arkansas Museum of Discovery]] in [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]. The full extent of the trackway has never been excavated.