The Arkadelphia City was a Ouachita River steamboat that suffered a disastrous boiler explosion on April 25, 1...

The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM) in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) is home to Arkansas’s only ...

The Arkansas River originates high in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, and i...

The Arkansas Traveler was a steamboat that sank after hitting a snag in the Arkansas River below Pine Bluff (J...

The Arkansas Waterways Commission was established by Act 242 of 1967, and its powers and duties were amended b...

At least twenty nineteenth-century steamboats were called Arkansas or a derivative of the state’s name, acco...

The steamboat B. M. Runyan was carrying a regiment of Union soldiers when it struck a snag in the Mississippi ...

The Baring Cross Bridge is located in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) over the Arkansas River at river m...

The Bart Tully was a steam towboat that abruptly sank on the Mississippi River near Osceola (Mississippi Count...

The Belle of Texas was a steamboat running between Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Memphis, Tennessee, when i...

The Belle Zane was a sternwheel river packet that struck a snag on the Mississippi River about twelve miles be...

The Brandywine was a steamboat that caught fire in early April 1832, resulting in a significant loss of life a...

At the time Arkansas became a territory, most water crossings were fords. When travelers came to a body of wat...

Bull Shoals Dam site is located on the White River about ten miles west of Mountain Home (Baxter County), wher...

The Cache River arises near the Arkansas-Missouri border at the confluence of a few agricultural ditches and f...

The Caddo River of west-central Arkansas is known widely as the Natural State’s premier family float str...

The steamboat Cambridge was carrying a regiment of Confederate soldiers on the White River when it struck a sn...

The Car of Commerce was a steamboat that burst a boiler north of Osceola (Mississippi County) on May 14, 1828,...

The Caroline was a steamboat that caught fire while traveling up the White River on March 5, 1854, and sank, w...

Flavius Josephus (Flave) Carpenter was a steamboat captain, U.S. marshal, and businessman. He is credited with...

The Cherokee was a steamboat that sustained a devastating and deadly boiler explosion at Lewisburg (Conway Cou...

The Clarksville was a steamboat that caught fire while heading up the Mississippi River on May 27, 1848. Twent...

The Clermont was a small steamboat that struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River on March 8, 1867; one ...

The steamboat Clermont No. 2 sank after hitting a snag on the White River near Augusta (Woodruff County) on De...

The Comet was the first steamboat to go up the Arkansas River, arriving at Arkansas Post on March 31, 1820. Th...

The steam packet Saladin collided with the steamboat Congress on the evening of February 14, 1846, near Island...

The steamboats Cote Joyeuse and Talma collided near Big Cypress Bend (Chicot County) on the Mississippi River ...

The Danville was a small steamboat that opened the Petit Jean River for riverine commerce in 1872 and played a...

The Dardanelle Pontoon Bridge was the largest pontoon bridge in existence in the United States, crossing the A...