June 01, 2006

A Mystery on West End

I missed this story earlier this week. Very interesting...

A quiet dead-end street a few blocks off Nashville's busy West End Avenue was the scene for a 21st century attempt to solve a 200-year-old puzzle.

A small group of witnesses gathered as ground-penetrating radar was used by State Archaeologist Nick Fielder and others to search for the grave of the only man ever killed in a duel with Andrew Jackson.

Charles Dickinson was slain May 30, 1806, almost exactly two centuries ago, and 22 years before Jackson's election as U.S. president. The location of Dickinson's grave is lost to history, but rival schools of thought claim he was buried either in Nashville or in his home county in Maryland.

Read the entire article.

(via Cronaca)

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