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The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had kidnapped. [4]
The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is located in Hope, Arkansas. [2] Built in 1917 by H. S. Garrett, in this house the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spent the first four years of his life, having been born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.
Joined by Ranger companies and armed settlers hastily assembled as militia from central and east Texas, they confronted the Indians at Good's Crossing on Plum Creek, near the modern town of Lockhart (about 27 miles south of Austin). [5] According to Arizona historian Robert M. Utley, the battle of Plum Creek was a disaster for the Comanche ...
This list of Arkansas Townships is based on the U. S. Census (2000) list of places in Arkansas. There are also former townships that have been combined with others or absorbed by urban expansion. There are also former townships that have been combined with others or absorbed by urban expansion.
Plum Bayou Mounds itself had a small population, made up primarily of political and religious leaders of the community and their families. This center was occupied from the 7th to the 11th century. Located on the banks of an oxbow lake, the archaeological site once had an 8–10-foot-high (2.4–3.0 m) and 5,298-foot-long (1,615 m) earthen ...
Battle of Plum Creek, an attack by involving Comanche and Tonkawa tribes near Lockhart, Texas, on August 12, 1840 Plum Creek Railroad Attack , a train derailment in August 1867 Plum Creek Timber , the largest private landowner in the United States
He was also on the Highway Commission of Arkansas. James Robert Alexander, who had settled in the area in 1882, built Land's End Plantation (Scott, Arkansas) in 1925; its central house was designed by John Parks Almand. It is a 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) working plantation, located on the banks of the Arkansas River.
Clarksville is located in south-central Johnson County and is bordered to the south by the Arkansas River, although the city center is 3 miles (5 km) north of the river and west of Spadra Creek. Interstate 40 leads southeast 100 miles (161 km) to Little Rock and west 55 miles (89 km) to Fort Smith.