calsfoundation@cals.org
June 27, 2007
In 1929, the area in Arkansas County marking the oldest European settlement in the Lower Mississippi River Valley was designated Arkansas Post State Park. Approximately thirty-one years later, the U.S. Congress authorized the National Park Service to preserve and develop the area further. In 1960, it was designated a national memorial and a national landmark. Today, the area in this aerial photograph is known as Arkansas Post National Memorial.