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[2] [3] Samuel D. Parr started a settlement in 1838 that would become Port Bolivar. [4] The original Fort Travis was located on the east end of Galveston. The present location was the Confederate Fort Green [5] In 1872 Bolivar Point Lighthouse was constructed north of Fort Travis.
The following are tallies of current listings in Arkansas on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
There are four of these in Arkansas. The National Park Service lists these four together with the NHLs in the state, [6] The Arkansas Post National Memorial, the Fort Smith National Historic Site (shared with Oklahoma) and the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site are also NHLs and are listed above. The remaining one is:
East Bay exchanges seawater with the Gulf of Mexico at Rollover Pass in Gilchrist and at Galveston Harbor near Port Bolivar.It is fed by Oyster Bayou, an important nursery for oysters and shrimp, which runs 23 miles from its source near Winnie through the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge to its confluence with East Bay, near the bay's easternmost point. [5]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 764 square miles (1,980 km 2), of which 758 square miles (1,960 km 2) is land and 5.2 square miles (13 km 2) (0.7%) is water. [4] Located in Arkansas's northeast corner, the county is bisected by Crowley's Ridge and the L'Anguille River which both pass north–south through the ...
Crystal Beach and the entire Bolivar Peninsula suffered catastrophic damage from Hurricane Ike on the night of September 12–13, 2008. [3] The majority of the area was damaged by a storm surge of over 20 ft, during the high tide of 4:14 a.m., adding 1.5-2.3 ft more height to the storm tide, plus higher waves on top.
The area now known as Jefferson County was occupied by the Quapaw when Henri de Tonti established Arkansas Post in 1686. De Tonti claimed the area for Louis XIV, King of France. [5] In March 1819, Robert Crittenden was appointed secretary of the Arkansas Territory. That same year, Joseph Bonne, traveling upstream on the Arkansas River from ...
After the creation of Arkansas Post National Memorial in 1929, the Arkansas State Legislature passed Act 418 on March 28, 1957, though funding to develop the area into a state park was not approved until 1979. [4] The park offers interpretive programs, camping, hiking, fishing, and canoeing. Park facilities were originally built on the old ...