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	Arkansas Post National Memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arkansas Post, Arkansas was the first permanent French settlement in the lower Mississippi River valley and was the first territorial capital of the State of Arkansas.
		Arkansas Post was founded in 1686 by Henri de Tonti at the site of a Quapaw Indian village named Osotouy near where the Arkansas River enters the Mississippi River.
		The post was selected as the first capital of the Arkansas Territory and became the center of commercial and political life in Arkansas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arkansas_Post_National_Memorial (376 words)

	Arkansas Post. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		), community on the Arkansas River, SE Ark. Founded by the French in 1686 as a trading post, it is the oldest white settlement in the state; it became the capital of the Arkansas territory in 1819.
		Once an important port, Arkansas Post was a Confederate stronghold during the Civil War until it was captured by Union troops in 1863.
		Arkansas Post National Memorial is there (see National Parks and Monuments, table).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ar/ArkansPst.html (126 words)

	Arkansas Secretary of State:Educational Materials:Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arkansas Post, established by the French under Henri De Tonti in 1686, was the first permanent white settlement in Arkansas.
		Arkansas, under American control, was first a part of the Louisiana Territory and then of the Missouri Territory before it became a separate territory in 1819.
		Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.
	www.sos.arkansas.gov /educational_facts.html (671 words)

	ARKANSAS POST CHAPTER, NSDAR
		The Arkansas Post Chapter, NSDAR is proud to be in its 26th year of service.
		The Arkansas Post Chapter was organized and confirmed by NSDAR on June 7, 1979 with thirteen charter members.
		During the Spanish regime, 1765-1800, Arkansas Post was involved in the American Revolution.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Village/7020/arkansaspost.htm (391 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		ARKANSAS, one of the West South Central states of the U.S., bounded on the N and NE by Missouri, on the E by Tennessee and Mississippi, on the S by Louisiana, on the SW by Texas, and on the W by Oklahoma.
		Arkansas, with an area of 137,742 sq km (53,182 sq mi), is the 29th largest state in the U.S; 7.1% of the land is owned by the federal government.
		Arkansas is an important producer of cattle, hogs, chicken eggs, and turkeys and ranks among the leading states in the production of commercial broilers; livestock and livestock products account for about two-thirds of the state's farm income.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/arkansas.html (2963 words)

	Arkansas Post National Memorial - Mission, Purpose, and Significance Statements
		Arkansas Post was the first permanent European settlement in the Lower Mississippi River Valley.
		Arkansas Post reflects where the United States gained control of the Arkansas River Basin by establishing Fort Madison.
		Arkansas Post served as a major temporary internment point along the water route of the Trail of Tears.
	www.nps.gov /arpo/park/mispursig.htm (488 words)

	Arkansas Post National Memorial (National Park Service)
		The establishment of the Post was the first step in a long struggle between France, Spain, and England over the interior of the North American continent.
		Over the years, the Post relocated as necessary due to flooding from the Arkansas River, but its position always served of strategic importance for the French, Spanish, American, and Confederate military.
		By 1819, the post was a thriving river port and the largest city in the region and selected as the first capital of the Arkansas Territory.
	www.nps.gov /arpo (274 words)

	ATU - French Colonial Arkansas
		One of the first settlements by the French in the Mississippi Valley was in Arkansas, in 1686 at what was variously termed the Postes des Akansas, or Arkansas Post.
		The first Arkansas Post was established by Henri de Tonti in 1686, at the Quapaw Indian village of Osotouy.
		For example, a Post commandant in 1778 noted helpfully, that the post destroyed by Chickasaw in 1749 was not rebuilt, because the Arkansas River channel had moved away from Little Prairie.
	www.uark.edu /campus-resources/archinfo/atufrencol.html (2447 words)

	The US50 - A guide to the fifty states
		By 1836, the Arkansas Territory had the 60,000 residents required to become a state, and after writing an acceptable constitution, was declared the 25th state in the United States.
		Arkansas was drawn into the Civil War in May, 1861, by its decision to secede from the Union.
		Even as early as 1875, Arkansas was billed as the "Land of Opportunity" when an active campaign was launched outside the state to attract new residents to Arkansas.
	www.theus50.com /arkansas/history.shtml (1225 words)

	Arkansas Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Here we are at Arkansas Post National Memorial, enjoying the annual educational colonial encampment and historical programs offered by the park staff and guest interpreters.
		Arkansas Post was destroyed the final time during the Civil War as a rear-guard acttion of the Vicksburg campaign.
		Right next to the entrance is the Arkansas Post Museum, which is run by the Arkansas State Parks.
	users.aristotle.net /~russjohn/history/arkpost.html (1733 words)

	Arkansas Post in the American Revolution
		The small garrison on the Arkansas was ill-equipped to deal with large numbers of interlopers and relied on their Indian allies to pillage hunting camps and drive out the British.
		The post inhabitants were fearful for their lives and a day later offered to supply the garrison with pickets for a stockade.
		The Quapaw chief overtook the raiders south of the mouth of the Arkansas.
	www.baxtercountyonline.com /arkdar/arkpost.htm (1989 words)

	Arkansas Post--The Original Capital
		Arkansas Post served as the beginning for Arkansas History and played a vital role shaping Arkansas through several central turning points spanning from French and Spanish occupation to present.
		The moving of the Capital with the Arkansas Gazette following it, fighting at the fort, and the Arkansas River eroding its banks and flooding the town ultimately led to the destruction and abandonment of the town that was Arkansas Post.
		Arkansas Post is not only a piece of history, it is a vital piece of Arkansas history, and there might never have been a placed called Arkansas without it.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/99-00/CookP (435 words)

	The Civil War in Arkansas - Places \| Gillett
		By 1819, the post was a thriving river port important enough to be selected the capital of the Arkansas Territory.
		In this pivotal year in the history of Arkansas and the nation, it was, in the words of a Union officer, "a small village, the capital of Arkansas County...
		He realized that holding on to the Post of Arkansas was impossible given the enemy's superiority in men and firepower, but he had hoped to be able to hang on until nightfall, when he would try to cut his way through the Union lines to safety.
	www.civilwarbuff.org /gillett.html (2474 words)

	Arkansas Post National Memorial - Arkansas State Park -
		Arkansas Post National Memorial (Fort Hindman) 1999 NPS Map Battle of Arkansas Post Engraving NPS Aerial Photos (3-97) Site of Fort Hindman.
		The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial In Arkansas - Calendar - Arkansas Post National Memori - Calendar of events during Arkansas Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase...
		Arkansas Post, National Memorial - Arkansas Post, National Memorial...
	www.stateparks.com /arkansas_post_national_memorial.html (422 words)

	Arkansas post
		In 1686, the trading post known as Poste de Arkansea was built by the French.
		In 1803, Arkansas Post became part of the United States through the Louisiana Purchase, and by 1819, it was a thriving river port.
		The battle of Arkansas Post was a lopsided victory, almost not worthy of press.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/63/battles/transms/akpost.html (1115 words)

	Arkansas Post on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		(är´kensô), community on the Arkansas River, SE Ark. Founded by the French in 1686 as a trading post, it is the oldest white settlement in the state; it became the capital of the Arkansas territory in 1819.
		Sheena, a mountain lion, was bred in captivity and now makes her home in the wildlife center at the Arkansas Native Plant and Wildlife Center in Queen Wilhelmina State Park in Mena, Arkansas.
		Tom Young, of the Arkansas Native Plant and Wildlife Center in Queen Wilhelmina State Park in Mena, Arkansas, holds a pair of timber rattlesnakes.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/ArkansP1st.asp (774 words)

	Archives: Story
		Arkansas Post Museum is the best state park in Arkansas.
		That's what Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism director Greg Butts said Tuesday when he presented the staff of the museum six miles south of Gillett with the State Park of the Year award from his agency.
		Arkansas Post Museum "has outstanding programs -- nine outdoor programs, 20 indoor programs, nine special programs," Butts said in praise of the museum.
	www.dewitt-ee.com /articles/2004/11/24/news/news1.txt (647 words)

	University of Arkansas Press Listings
		The fascinating story of the interracial cooperation that sustained the tiny frontier settlement of Arkansas Post for six generations.
		Arkansas Post was founded in 1686 by the French explorer Henri de Tonty, predating St. Louis and New Orleans by decades, and was thus the first European settlement in what would become Jefferson's Louisiana.
		Arkansas Post emerges as an early American model of coexistence in which dissimilar residents interacted in a manner that was equally beneficial to both and characterized by mutual respect.
	www.uark.edu /~uaprinfo/titles/sp00/arnold_rumble.html (314 words)

	Arkansas Post National Memorial (Fort Hindman) site photos
		While assembling for the descent on Vicksburg during the winter of 1862-63, General John A. McClernand diverted the portion of the Union army under his command to attack Arkansas Post.
		To protect Little Rock and southeastern Arkansas from a river attack, Confederate engineers built an earthen fort at Arkansas Post in 1862.
		From the northern corner of "Fort Hindman" extending about 700 yards west to the swamps of Post Bayou, the defenders of Arkansas Post established a fortified line to deter attack from the north.
	www.civilwaralbum.com /vicksburg/ark_post.htm (462 words)

	Wildernet - Arkansas Post Museum
		Description - Arkansas Post was the first settlement in Arkansas, and one of the first west of the Mississippi River.
		The actual site of the Post is now a lake bed due to the Arkansas River's change of course.
		This museum collects, preserves and interprets the Territorial Era of Arkansas' development as a state and its relationship to the settlement of the lower Mississippi Valley.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=ARMAPM&cu_id=1 (287 words)

	Little Rock District - Arkansas Post
		The Arkansas Post Field Office is a sub-office of the Pine Bluff Project Office.
		It is responsible for managing parks on the Arkansas River area from Wilbur D. Mills Lock and Dam to the confluence of the Arkansas River, the White River and the Mississippi River.
		Visitors can spend their time around the Arkansas Post Field Office like the pioneers did, or they are welcome to partake of more modern conveniences.
	www.swl.usace.army.mil /parks/arkpost (193 words)

	Ettractions.com - Arkansas Post National Memorial
		Arkansas Post N.Mem is a National Park site commemorating 300+ years of history.
		Arkansas Post) was the site of the first French settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley.
		Arkansas is tehonly place in North America where diamonds have been discovered and mined.
	www.ettractions.com /ettractions/att/9632.asp (203 words)

	Arkansas and Armenian Postcards & Post Cards
		See also Arkansas postal history which is extensive.
		Shown is the cancel of Cherry Hill, a discontinued post office.
		"Stuttgart, Arkansas, Heart of the Rice Belt/In this Manner Water for Irrigation is Supplied at the Rate of..." WBE, fl and white, unused.
	www.judnick.com /Arkansas.htm (2591 words)

	Arkansas Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
		Arkansas (base map) JPEG format (553K) County boundaries and names, county seats, rivers.
		Arkansas (reference map) JPEG format (272K) Shaded relief map with state boundaries, forest cover, place names, major highways.
		Arkansas (reference map) PDF format (196K) Shaded relief map with state boundaries, forest cover, place names, major highways.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/arkansas.html (347 words)

	Eudora, Arkansas
		The history of medicine in Arkansas, and the treatments used from 1834 to 1885 are almost unbelievable.
		According to records of the Post Office Department now in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., a post office was established at Eudora, Chicot County Arkansas on December 4, 1846 with Henry Stern-Postmaster.
		On February 8, 1867, the Eudora Post Office was discontinued; Eudora Post Office was re-established on October 10, 1871 with William T. Owen as Postmaster.
	www.seark.net /~sabra/eud.html (1605 words)

	Arkansas Post
		Arkansas Post, community on the Arkansas River, SE Ark. Founded by the French in 1686 as a trading post, it is the oldest white settlement in the state; it became the capital of the Arkansas territory in 1819.
		Arkansas, state, United States: History - History Early History to Statehood A people known as the Bluff Dwellers, who inhabited caves,...
		Arkansas House Republican leader Marvin Parks has resigned from his party post saying he needed to focus full time on his congressional campaign to unseat Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark.(Business Briefs)(Brief Article) (Arkansas Business)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0804723.html (255 words)

	Central Arkansas Library System
		The Music Department of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff: Its Development and Role in Music Education in the State of Arkansas, 1873-1973.
		Holmes, William F. "The Arkansas Cotton Pickers Strike of 1891 and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance," Arkansas Historical Quarterly.
		African-American Struggles for Citizenship in the Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas in the Age of Jim Crow.
	www.cals.lib.ar.us /butlercenter/abho/bib (5297 words)

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