Nashville, Arkansas

==Arts and culture==

===Museums and other points of interest===
The [[National Register of Historic Places]] lists several entries of significant historical value from Nashville.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/AR/Howard/state.html| title=National Register of Historical Places – ARKANSAS (AR), Howard County| access-date=26 December 2015}}</ref>  Among them:
*The First Christian Church building, built in the Late [[Gothic Revival#The 20th century|Gothic Revival]] style in the early 20th century, is still an active church.
*The Howard County Museum is located in the [[First Presbyterian Church (Nashville, Arkansas)|First Presbyterian Church]] building, built in the Eastlake style in the early 1900s.
*Garrett Whiteside Hall is all that remains of the Nashville High School complex built in the 1930s.  It is used for storage and special activities by the local school district.
*Elbert W. Holt House, and Flavius Holt House, [[Colonial Revival]] structures, are still used as private residences.
*[[Howard County Courthouse (Arkansas)|Howard County Courthouse]] is one of the few public buildings in Arkansas built in the Moderne or [[Art Deco]] style.

===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.