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Pre-European exploration
In August 1972, Joe B. Friday discovered the remains of the right hind foot of a dinosaur in a shallow pit on his land in Lockesburg (Sevier County). He found the bones in rocks belonging to the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, which consists of deposits of clay, sand, gravel, limestone, and the evaporite minerals gypsum and celestite. He donated the bones to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where they are kept in the University Museum Collections at the Arkansas Archeological Survey. -
Period: 1541 to
European Exploration and Settlement
The Europeans named Cherokee as one of Five Civilized Tribes. At the time, Cherokee inhabited a region consisting of what is now North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee. Next two centuries, Cherokee expanded through the southern Appalachians, reaching further into Georgia as well as into South Carolina, northeastern Alabama, and across the Cumberland River into Kentucky and West Virginia; some of this expansion occurred following the displacement of other tribes. -
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Appeal of Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World
The “Appeal of the Arkansas Exiles to Christians throughout the World” was a plea for assistance written by twelve free African Americans expelled from Arkansas after the passage of Act 151 of 1859. The authors of the appeal left Arkansas on or about January 1, 1860, and arrived, with several others, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 3, 1860.The exodus from Arkansas displaced an estimated 800 free blacks from an approximate population of 1,000 who resided in the state prior to 1860. -
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Little Rock Campaign
The Little Rock Campaign was a Civil War campaign in which the Union army under Major General Frederick Steele maneuvered Confederate troops under Major General Sterling Price out of the Arkansas capital, thus returning Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Federal control in 1863 and giving the Union effective control of the strategically important Arkansas River Valley. Location: East and Central Arkansas; Results: Union won the battle -
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Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMS)
The Arkansas State Medical Association (ASMA), organized in 1870 was Arkansas’s first statewide professional organization for regular physicians (meaning those within the regular medical mainstream). A dispute over ethics erupted in 1873, which contributed to the ASMA’s eventual dissolution in 1879. -
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Modern Era
Located near Little Rock National Airport, the Arknasas aerospace Education Center (AEC) provided the state with aerospace education through the Workforce Dev. Center of UA-PTC. The center, which is owned by the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society, also housed the state’s only IMAX theater and a library that held the Jay Miller Aviation Collection of aerospace materials.