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Arkansas Post’s story runs deep
You can walk through the oldest European settlement site in the lower Mississippi Valley and barely see another visitor.
Arkansas Post National Memorial sits on a green peninsula where the Arkansas River meets calm backwaters near Gillett, and it ranks among the least crowded sites in the National Park System.
French traders, Quapaw villagers, Confederate soldiers, and Union troops all left their mark on this ground over three centuries. Parts of that history now sit underwater, and the river is the reason why.
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Step onto Arkansas’s oldest settlement grounds
Arkansas Post National Memorial sits on a green peninsula where the Arkansas River meets calm backwaters near Gillett, in southeast Arkansas…