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The Arkansas Post (French: Poste de Arkansea; Spanish: Puesto de Arkansas), formally the Arkansas Post National Memorial, was the first European settlement in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and present-day U.S. state of Arkansas. In 1686, Henri de Tonti established it on behalf of Louis XIV of France for the purpose of trading with the Quapaw ...
Arkansas Post is an unincorporated community located along the north side of the Arkansas River in Arkansas County, Arkansas. [1] It is home to the Arkansas Post National Memorial . History
The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. [2] Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).
Arkansas Forum: Siloam Springs 1921 c. 1921 [8] Arkansas Gazette: Arkansas Post, Little Rock 1819 [9] 1991 [10] Arkansas Herald: Siloam Springs 1882 1889 [11] Arkansas Intelligencer: Van Buren 1842 1845 [12] Arkansas Journal: Helena 1843 1845 [13] Arkansas Ladies Journal: Little Rock 1884 1886 founded by Mary W. Loughborough [14] Arkansas Post ...
The Arkansas River is very shallow through Arkansas and Oklahoma, and was naturally incapable of supporting river traffic through most of the year. To allow for navigation, construction was started in 1963 on a system of channels and locks to connect the many reservoirs along the length of the Arkansas River.
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as the Colbert Raid and the Battle of Fort Carlos, was an unsuccessful British attempt to capture Fort Carlos III and the Franco-Spanish village of Arkansas Post, Louisiana (present-day U.S. state of Arkansas) in the American Revolutionary War.
The Arkansas Gazette began publication at Arkansas Post, the first capital of Arkansas Territory, on November 20, 1819. The Arkansas Gazette was established seventeen years before Arkansas became a state. When the capital was moved to Little Rock in 1821, publisher William E. Woodruff also relocated the Arkansas Gazette. The newspaper was the ...
Dunnington selected a location for a fortification on the Arkansas River near the settlement of Arkansas Post. [1] Located 0.25 miles (400 m) north of the village, at a point commanding the river on a hairpin curve, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the fort mounted three heavy guns – two 9-inch (23 cm) columbiads and one 8 in (20 cm) – and eight lighter guns.