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Hampson Archeological Museum State Park is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Arkansas state park in Mississippi County, Arkansas in the United States. The museum contains a collection of archeological artifacts from the Nodena site , which is a former Native American village on the Mississippi River between 1400 and 1650.
The museum for the Nodena site is named after Dr. James K. Hampson (1877–1956), owner of the Hampson Plantation on which the Nodena site is located, and the first archaeologist to excavate and preserve the artifacts from the Nodena site and to document their recovery.
The Nodena site was discovered and first documented by Dr. James K. Hampson, archaeologist and owner of the plantation on which the site is located. Artifacts from this site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson. [2] [3] Pecan Point site (3 Ms 78) - excavated by Clarence B. Moore in 1910 or 1911 [4]
James Kelly Hampson (1877 – 8 October 1956) was the archaeologist that excavated and preserved the artifacts from the Nodena site and owner of the Hampson Plantation in Wilson, Arkansas. [1] [2] The Hampson Museum State Park in Wilson, Arkansas is named after James K. Hampson. The museum exhibits an archeological collection of early American ...
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The Hampson Museum State Park in downtown Wilson exhibits an archeological collection of early American aboriginal artifacts from the Nodena site 5 mi (8 km) east of the town. The museum documents the culture of a civilization which existed in a 15-acre (60,703 m 2) palisaded village on a meander bend of the Mississippi River in the area around ...
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:
In 1900, archaeologist James K. Hampson documented the discovery of skeletal remains of a mastodon on Island No. 35 of the Mississippi River, Tipton County, Tennessee. The site of the prehistoric find is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Reverie, Tennessee and 23 miles (37 km) south of Blytheville, Arkansas.