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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VC_the-european-settlement_Gillett-AR.html
The United States and several European powers vied for control of the lower Mississippi Valley. Arkansas Post was the key to that control.
In 1541 Hernando de Soto explored the territory which is now Arkansas. Sieur de La Salle further penetrat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VB_the-french-period_Gillett-AR.html
The Regent of France authorized a settlement at the Post of Arkansas in 1722. These early settlers were on good terms with the Quapaw Indians who "exhibited a great spirit of friendliness and hospitality toward the French". Cotton was introduced i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21VA_republican-france_Gillett-AR.html
When Napoleon I became Emperor of France in 1799, he envisioned the establishment of a vast "French Empire in America". He began in 1800 when he won control of Louisiana from Spain.
Constant threat of war with England soon forced him to abando…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21V9_the-american-era_Gillett-AR.html
The land passed from France to the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. Arkansas then became a territory on March 2, 1819: the Post of Arkansas was designated its capital.
The Territorial Secretary Robert Crittendon, acting in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21ST_stone-from-ruins-of-old-bank_Gillett-AR.html
This Stone Was Taken
from
Ruins of Old Bank, built
at
Arkansas Post, 1839.
Arkansas Post State Park.
Created by Act of Legislature 1929.
Introduced by Ballard Deane,
Representative, Arkansas County.
Act signed by Harvey Par…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21SS_the-post-under-spain_Gillett-AR.html
In 1763 the Post of Arkansas became
Spanish territory when, by the Treaty of
Paris, the French King ceded Louisiana
to Spain. For several years after the
transfer, French officers and soldiers
remained at Arkansas Post.
In 1771 the first …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21SG_on-they-come-like-an-irresistible-thunder-bolt_Gillett-AR.html
The Confederate scouts were alarmed. Looking down river to your right, one exclaimed, "One could hardly see anything in the background but smokestacks."
Union soldiers disembarked from their transports. All night, knee deep in mud, they advanc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21SE_where-is-fort-hindman_Gillett-AR.html
Standing here in January 1863, you would have seen
Confederate Fort Hindman. In what is now the water, the
fort stood atop a 25-foot high bluff The fort's cannon could
fire a mile up or down the river to protect the breadbasket
of Arkansas. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21RR_edge-of-empires_Gillett-AR.html
The succession of outposts here, remote from centers of New
World empire, symbolized a dream of the imperial age: to
connect the Gulf of Mexico to North America's vast interior
by the great rivers that drained it.
Following British victory i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21RQ_the-post-of-arkansas_Gillett-AR.html
Here on the Grand Prairie you tread on
soil laid down over the centuries as the
mighty Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers
brought down their precious cargoes of
silt from the northern uplands.
The footprints of many were pressed into
this ea…