June 29, 2009

Of the seventy-five counties of the state of Arkansas, four have been named for rivers. On November 1, 1833, the territorial legislature named the newest county then to be created after the Mississippi River. Shown here is the McCallie Access to the Mississippi River near Arkansas City (Desha County).

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