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French Place Names In Clark County, Arkansas, Joe Jeffers Jan 2019

French Place Names In Clark County, Arkansas, Joe Jeffers

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French place names are common in Arkansas, especially in south Arkansas, where after the French explorers left, French trappers and settlers from Canada moved in. Some of those names remain unchanged from the original French. General usage and English speaking settlers modified others. Clark County was one of five counties established in the Arkansas Territory. Its boundaries changed five times before reaching its present form in 1877. This article explores French place names in today’s Clark County and in the original Clark County formed in 1818.


Clark County, Arkansas: The Garden Spot Of The Sunny South, Lisa K. Speer Jan 2019

Clark County, Arkansas: The Garden Spot Of The Sunny South, Lisa K. Speer

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Presented here is a typescript of a pamphlet produced and distributed circa 1877 by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway to promote settlement in Clark County. The original pamphlet is housed in the collections of the Arkansas State Archives.