Place details
Place nameArkansas
Other namesAR
CountryUnited States
Latitude35
Longitude-93
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Area was home to Bluff Dwellers by 500 BC, later to Mound Builders; Caddo & Quapaw & others lived here when European fur traders arrived in 17th cen.; in Louisiana Purchase of 1803; was slave state, but only reluctantly joined Confederacy in Civil War.