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bridge which crosses Salt Creek just south of Nashville, one was east of Nashville and two west of Nashville, the Hoover mill near John Wrightsman’ s and the other one at Belmont.”
“ In slack times or on rainy days going to the mill offered in opportunity for the older men to get together and swap tales,” Mathis wrote in 1936.“ The mill dams provided a fine place to fish, and— they used to catch fine strings of fish while waiting for their corn to be ground.”
Goodspeed says the first house built at Jacksonburg( it didn’ t become“ Nashville” until 1837) or that immediate vicinity was a log structure erected about 1835 by Banner C. Brummet, a building that still stands on what is now Johnson Street.
Where Ned David was living before then, is unknown. Maybe Goodspeed didn’ t consider it to be a“ house.” Maybe it was considered to be outside the boundaries of“ Jacksonburg.”
David never officially registered his land claim with the state until 1828. Like most of the earliest Brown County settlers, he squatted until he obtained enough cash to purchase his land.
Ned David appears again in the historic record at the end of his life, at the first meeting of the Old Settlers Reunion in September of 1877, held near Georgetown, now Bean Blossom.
A beautiful carved cane was presented“ to the man over 60 years of age who had lived the longest in the county,” which proved to be Edward David, 92, who had lived in Brown County 64 years.
If this is true, David would have been here as early as 1813, five years before the 1818 treaty of St. Mary’ s and seven years before settlers were officially allowed into the formerly native lands in 1820.
Goodspeed reports that upon receiving the prize,“ The old gentleman, as if not forty years old instead of ninety-two, exhibited his activity and appreciation for the gift after the fashion of‘ ye olden time’ by dancing a jig to the tumultuous applause of the large crowd.”
By then, Brown County and Nashville had changed dramatically in many ways, and the earliest days upon Salt Creek at Jacksonburg were but a foggy memory. •
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