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Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe [1] [2] (4 February 1683 in Saint-Malo – 26 September 1765) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little Rock" in 1722 for a stone outcropping on the bank of the Arkansas River used by early travelers as a landmark. Little Rock, Arkansas was subsequently named for the landmark.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (), formerly known as "Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park", [3] also known as Knapp Mounds, Toltec Mounds or Toltec Mounds site, is an archaeological site from the Late Woodland period in Arkansas that protects an 18-mound complex with the tallest surviving prehistoric mounds in Arkansas.
The lake sturgeon is near the southern end of its range in Arkansas, more commonly found in the Upper Midwest. [86] Pallid and shovelnose sturgeon live in large, turbid rivers of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, including the lower Arkansas, Mississippi, and lower White rivers downstream of impoundments. [87] [88]
Lake Conway is a 6,700-acre (27 km 2) lake in Arkansas. Lake Conway is the largest lake ever created by a state wildlife commission and the first to be created by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Lake Conway is located directly east of Mayflower, Arkansas, and just a few miles southeast of Conway, Arkansas. Lake Conway is home to many ...
Wilmington scored a spot on Fishing Booker's list of The 12 Best Fishing Cities for 2024. The list labels the North Carolina Cape Fear region as one of the "best fishing grounds in the state."
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Millwood Lake [1] is mainly recognized for its fishing and birding access. [2] It is also known for housing the 1,380-pound alligator, which was caught in the lake in 2012. [ 3 ] Its 35,000 acres (14,000 ha) of submerged timber provide homes for the many varieties of fish in the lake, including the indigenous Millwood lunker largemouth bass.