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Rh This region was also known as Corne de Cerf, Elkhorn Prairie, Elkhorn Point and Ayres Point. Prairie, forest, and bottom land were not far apart here. The "Meadow-in-the-Hole" was a singular little meadow, fifty or sixty yards wide, located on a "dry branch" of the Elkhorn and thirty feet lower than the surrounding forests—at what is now Oakdale on the Elkhorn. From the present Oakdale the pathway ran from Elkhorn Prairie through Nashville Prairie, circling half a mile to the north and northeast of Nashville, Washington County. Turning to the east here, it coursed onward to a celebrated "point" of woods called Grand Point, near the present Grand Point Creek, section 32, township 2, south range 1W, two miles and a half northwest of Richview, Washington County. From thence it circled northeast through section 9 in Grand Prairie Township, the extreme northwest township of Jefferson County. The second night's camp may