South — Site filing

Sites with a file in Arkansas

Arkansas carries 14 dossiers under this filing — places the record keeps even where the classification stays broad. The documented past sits on one side of each file, the reported present on the other. Claims are logged as claims; the archive does not certify the ground.

14 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsFort Smith National Historic Site — deepest file

Also filed under site:Hawaii44 Michigan39 Arizona39 Wyoming30 Illinois30 Oregon22 Pennsylvania20 West Virginia20

Other Arkansas filings:Battlefields5 Hotels4 Cemeteries4 Naturals3

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Judge Parker’s court and the gallows—"the hangman’s" ground.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Toltec Mounds

Scott, Arkansas

The Plum Bayou mounds—1,000-year-old earthworks older than the name suggests.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Rohwer Relocation Center

Rohwer, Arkansas

The camp where 8,000 Japanese Americans were held—and George Takei grew up.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hot Springs National Park

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The federal reserve older than Yellowstone—the springs and the bathhouse row.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Sultana site

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Elaine

Elaine, Arkansas

September 30-October 1, 1919—the deadliest racial massacre in U.S. history.

2 claims · 1 legend→

USS Sultana

Marion, Arkansas

April 27, 1865—the steamboat that killed 1,800 freedmen.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Parkin Archeological State Park

Parkin, Arkansas

Casqui—the Mississippian town de Soto visited in 1541.

Jerome Relocation Center

Jerome, Arkansas

The Delta camp that held 8,000—Arkansas’s other incarceration site.

1 claim · 1 legend→

War Eagle Mill

Hindsville, Arkansas

The working watermill on War Eagle Creek—third on the site since 1832.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Arkansas Post National Memorial

Gillett, Arkansas

The first European settlement in the lower Mississippi—1686.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hampson Archeological Museum

Wilson, Arkansas

Nodena—the duck-pot culture that de Soto also met.

Ka-Do-Ha Indian Village

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

The excavated mound village near the diamond field.

Crater of Diamonds

Murfreesboro, Arkansas

The world’s only public diamond mine—where the Uncle Sam was found.

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