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McElmurray’s Cadron Settlement: Arkansas’s Forgotten Boom Town
Cadron Settlement rose and fell in just two decades. French hunters built “Quadran” fort in 1807 where Cadron Creek meets the Arkansas River.
By 1810, John McElmurray ran a busy trading post with 100 hunters nearby. His blockhouse soon became the heart of a boom town that sold half-acre lots for $1,300.
Folks thought it would be the capital. Instead, Cadron lost to Little Rock, and after McElmurray died in 1827, the fur trade dried up…