Dwight Mission

Sketch of Dwight Mission at Russellville (Pope County), the first formal Protestant effort directed at the education and conversion of Native Americans in Arkansas; 1824.

Church and surrounding buildings with trees and river in the background

From Historic Arkansas, courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood (1803 - 1860)

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Institutions and Buildings / Religion

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