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Homestead National Historical Park
Richard Peevy
- Type: Person
Under the Homestead Act of 1862, Richard Peevy filed a homestead application for 160 acres of land in Union County, Arkansas on April 25, 1871 and received his patent on March 1, 1877.
- Type: Article
Calhoun and Ouachita Counties in Arkansas contained important military training and research and development sites during World War II. Camden Airfield in Calhoun County and Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot in Ouchita County made significant contributions to U.S. military preparedness and employed thousands of county residents during the War.
- Type: Article
Tree mapping project at Fort McHenry NM & HS, Hampton NHS, Star-Spangled Banner NHT
- Type: Article
The immigration interview of Ou Shee Eng provides an intimate window into the exclusionary governmental practices that Asian immigrant women experienced. Despite being treated poorly at the border, Ou Shee created a welcoming home within a thriving Chinese immigrant community in Seattle’s East Kong Yick building. Today, this building houses the Wing Luke Museum.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Cherokee Park (ACE)
- Type: Place
Cherokee Park is located on the Arkansas River where the flat boats crowded with people on their long dangerous journey passed by. The Ouachita Mountains were coming into view with Petit Jean growing on the horizon as they moved farther from their ancestral homes. A small quiet campground on the Arkansas River in central Arkansas, Cherokee Park is close to other natural features like Petit Jean Mountain. There is excellent fishing there below the dam and the hydropower plant.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Toad Suck Park
- Type: Place
Toad Suck Park is only a short trip to many other attractions, located where the landscape on the Arkansas River is transitioning from the delta to the Ouachita Mountains to the south and west with the Ozark Plateau to the north and east. Cadron Settlement is only a few minutes away, the historic Toad Suck Ferry is just across the river, and Little Rock or North Little Rock a short distance away. Many other places are all within easy day trips from this beautiful quiet camp.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Lake Dardanelle State Park
- Type: Place
Today the lake looks wide and calm, but the Arkansas River still flows through it with a good current. Landmarks mentioned in journals and ship logbooks from the Trail of Tears are still known to locals and one of the site exhibits near the boat launch highlights local places then and now. There is also space dedicated to the Trail of Tears inside and behind the visitor center on the overlook deck.
Buffalo National River
Dr. Neil Compton
- Type: Person
Dr. Neil Compton of Bentonville, Arkansas, is widely known for organizing and spearheading efforts to "Save the Buffalo River" from proposed hydroelectric dam projects, leading to the establishment of Buffalo National River in 1972.
Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs Mountain Tower
- Type: Place
The Hot Springs Mountain Tower is operated as a concession for the park. The tower's upper observation deck is open-air and at an elevation of 1,256 feet above sea level. From there, visitors may overlook 140 square miles of surrounding countryside, including the entire park and a portion of the Ouachita Mountains.
- Type: Article
Descriptions of the physiographic provinces of the United States, including maps, educational material, and listings of Parks for each.
Geologic Resources Division
Ouachita and Ozark Plateaus Provinces
- Type: Article
The Ozark Plateaus and the Ouachita are actually two physiographic provinces, related spatially and compositionally. Both regions are composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. To the north, the Ozark Plateaus are formed by an asymmetrical low dome, steep on the eastern slope and shallow on the west. The rocks of the Ouachita province have been deformed and eroded to form a series of east-west trending ridges and valleys.