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Fort Smith National Historic Site is a National Historic Site located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, along the Arkansas River. The first fort at this site was established by the United States in 1817, before this area was established as part of Indian Territory. It was later replaced and the second fort was operated by the US until 1871.
Construction of the lock and dam began in May, 1966, and closure was completed on October 15, 1970. It became operational for navigation in December, 1970. [1] The dam is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. [4] The surface area of the upper pool is 1,595 acres (6.45 km 2) and the capacity is 15,800 acre-feet (19,500,000 m 3).
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Per the animated system map (see "External links"), Dardanelle Lock & Dam (lock 10), which forms Lake Dardanelle, is the highest facility on the system (54 feet between upper & lower pools); Ozark-Jeta Taylor Lock & Dam (lock 12), just above that lake, is the third highest (34 feet).
It is located near the Fort Smith National Historic Site in the former Atkinson-Williams Warehouse, built in 1906 and one of the city's oldest surviving commercial warehouse buildings. The building, a large four-story brick building with typical early-20th-century commercial styling, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Fort Smith Convention Center, with 140,000 square feet of space, is one of the largest convention centers in the region, second only to Little Rock's Statehouse Convention Center, with 225,000 square feet. [22] Fort Smith Convention Center has more than 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) of exhibition space. Many trade shows, conventions, and other ...
Fort Smith: Demolished in or before 2009 2: Josiah Foster Building: January 20, 1978 (#78000631) September 14, 2002: 222 Garrison Avenue: Fort Smith: Damaged by an F3 tornado on April 21, 1996. Destroyed by fire in 1997 during renovations. 3