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The Arkansas Post (French: Poste de Arkansea; Spanish: Puesto de Arkansas), formally the Arkansas Post National Memorial, was the first European settlement in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and present-day U.S. state of Arkansas. In 1686, Henri de Tonti established it on behalf of Louis XIV of France for the purpose of trading with the Quapaw ...
French colonial settlements of Illinois Country — in the Colonial Louisiana domaine of New France. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
In April 1682, they arrived at the mouth of the Mississippi; they planted a cross and a column bearing the arms of the king of France. In 1686 de Tonti left 6 men near the Quapaw village of Osotouy, creating the settlement of Arkansas Post. De Tonti's Arkansas Post would be the first European settlement in the Lower Mississippi River valley.
Ozark Medieval Fortress was a project designed to construct an accurate replica of a 13th-century French castle in Lead Hill, Arkansas. [1] Construction was carried out on the site using only materials and techniques appropriate to the 13th century. [2] The ground was broken in 2009, with the expectation that completion would have taken about ...
[citation needed] The site is the first European settlement in the area and was garrisoned by a detachment from Fort St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches. [ citation needed ] They traveled along the Red , Sabine , and Trinity Rivers where they lived among and traded with the Natchitoches , Hasinai , Nasoni , Yatasi , Tawakoni and Kadohadacho Indians.
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1819 French engraving entitled Construction of Aigleville, Capital of the State of Marengo, on the Banks of the Tombechbé, Directed by General Lefebvre-Desnouettes.. The Vine and Olive Colony was an effort by a group of French Bonapartists who, fearing for their lives after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Bourbon Restoration, attempted to establish an agricultural settlement growing ...