Father Pietro Bandini, shown here in about 1915 celebrating Mass, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of Tontitown (Washington County), located in the northwest corner of the state, as an independent colony for Italian-American immigrants. He named the town after Henri de Tonti, an Italian explorer in 1686 who helped establish the first European settlement in Arkansas.
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