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1. Arkansas County Deed Book A, pp. 45-46.
2. Ibid. Jordella, who worked for Bright and Company, was killed by Choctaws in August 1806. He had sold the subject property to Bright and Company two years before.
4. Arkansas County Deed Book C, p. 283. Samuel Moseley had married Mary King on October 22, 1818. Ibid., p. 54.
6. Arkansas Gazette, Aug. 26, 1823.
7. Arkansas County Deed Book D, pp. 294-95. Babcock, who now lived in New Orleans, swore that the deed by which Drope had conveyed to him the property had been left at his former residence in Connecticut, and that he was "unable to give a more full and perfect description of the property."
8. Arkansas County Deed Book F, pp. 390-91.
10. Arkansas County Will Record A, pp. 174-79; Arkansas County Marriage Record B.
11. Arkansas County Real Estate Assessment Records, 1875-1930; personal interview, Bruce Kendall with Bearss, April 1, 1971.
12 .Arkansas County Deed Book 26, p. 206. The boundary of the tract conveyed by Quandt was to begin at the southeast corner of Spanish Land Grant No. 2363, the corner of which was on the edge of the bluff on the Arkansas River, as it was in 1819; then with the margin of the north bank of the river (with the meanders thereof as they were in 1903), the river having "receded south"; then north 10° east 4.20 chains; then north 1 chain; then north 5° east 5. 50 chains; then north 36° west 9 chains; then north 15° west 3.50 chains; then north 30° west 8 chains; then north 15° west 5.54 chains to the south line of Spanish Land Grant No. 2344; then south 82° west with said line 10.14 chains to the northeast corner of Spanish Land Grant No. 2432; then south 30° east with the east line of Spanish Land Grant No. 2432, 18 chains; then south 33° west with the south line of Spanish Land Grant No. 2432, 4 chains to a corner on said line; then south 54° east with east line of Spanish Land Grant No. 2363, 3.63 chains to a corner; then north 37°east 4.50 chains to a corner; then south 56° east with the east line of Spanish Land Grant No. 2363 to the bank of the Arkansas River as it was in 1893: then in a southerly direction up said bank to the place of beginning.
13. Arkansas County Deed Book C, pp. 394-96. As Elouisa Drope made her mark on the deed, it is presumed that she was unable to read or write, when the deed was recorded before Eli J. Lewis on January 14, 1820.
15. Arkansas Gazette. Nov. 3, 1821.
16. Arkansas County Deed Book D, p. 280.
17. Arkansas County Deed Book G, pp. 456-57. In addition, it was provided that, if Notrebe died first, "$3,000 in lawful money or the equivalent in property" be allotted Bellette. Moreover, if Notrebe's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Brevi11e Bellette, outlived her husband and son-in-law she was to retain "the legal interest of the said donation of $3,000 for her lifetime." The Bellettes, at this time, were given for their lifetime five slaves--Tom, a Negro man, age about 30; Mary Louise, a black woman about 28, with her infant boy Henderson; Juliana, a black woman, age about 21, with her infant boy Henry. Ibid., p. 458.
18. Arkansas County Land Sale Record C, p. 182.
20. Arkansas County Land Sale Record D, p. 103.
22. Arkansas County Land Sale Record E, p. 19; Arkansas County Real Estate Assessment Records for 1895 and 1901.
23. Arkansas County Real Estate Assessment Records, 1895-1930.
24. Arkansas County Deed Book D6, pp. 361-62; Records of the Arkansas County Probate Court, File No. 661. Included in the Quandt Estate were: the west one-half of Spanish Land Grant No. 2363; the east one-half of Spanish Land Grant No. 2626; 10.25 acres off the west side of Spanish Land Grant No. 2339; 55 acres situated in the northeast corner of Spanish Land Grant No. 2432; 60 acres off the east end of Spanish Land Grant No. 2432; one-sixth of an acre in the northwest corner of Section 6, Township 7 south, Range 3 west; Lots 7 to 12 inclusive , block 100, in Gillett; and a 2.87-acre tract in Spanish Land Grant No. 2307, where the deceased had lived. The other Quandt heirs were Bob Quandt, Morris G. and Fritz Goff, and Mrs. Lillie Mattmiller.
25. Arkansas County Deed Book 26, p. 208.
II. HISTORY OF THE SUBJECT LOTS--1804-66
1. Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801-1816, edited by Dunbar Rowland (6 vols., Jackson, 1917), I, 361.
2. Louisiana Gazette, July 19, 1805; Sept. 1 and Oct. 15, 1807; Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801-1816, II, pp. 29-30. On September 7, 1808, Governor Claiborne wrote Secretary of State James Madison, pointing out "that many of my countrymen at this place [New Orleans] deserve well of their government, among whom, there are none, who have been more uniform in support of the administration, of the laws, and of good order than Benjamin Morgan, Joseph Saul, and Dr. William Flood." Ibid., IV, 228. On October 14 of that year, Governor Claiborne referred to Morgan as "my friend." Ibid., p. 229.
3. Arkansas County Deed Book A, pp. 186-87.
4. Treat to Dearborn, Nov. 15, 1805, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. Treat had reached Post of Arkansas from Washington, D. C., by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, on September 4, 1805.
6. Treat to Davy, Feb. 27, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. William Davy was principal agent for the Indian Factories.
7. Treat to Davy, April 15, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810; Louisiana Gazette, April 15 and May 6, 1806. Captain Leverque commanded Hope and Captain Charbona Necessity.
8. Dearborn to Treat, April 29, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
9. Treat to Dearborn, July 13, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
10. Treat to Dearborn, July 13, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
11. Treat to Davy, Sept. 1, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
12. Extract from Bright's Journal, Bright to Secretary of War, Dec. 20, 1806, NA, RG 107, Ltrs. Recd., Secretary of War.
13. Ibid.; Morgan to Secretary of War, June 23, 1807, NA, RG 107, Ltrs. Recd., Secretary of War.
14. Morgan to Secretary of War, June 23, 1807, NA, RG 107, Ltrs. Recd., Secretary of War; Treat to Dearborn, Nov. 16, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
15. Morgan to Secretary of War, June 23, 1807, NA, RG 107, Ltrs. Recd., Secretary of War.
16. Abraham P. Nasatir, Spanish War Vessels on the Mississippi, 1792-1796 (New Haven, 1968), pp. 165-66.
17. Treat to Davy, Oct. 6, 1805, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
18. Treat to Davy, Nov. 15, 1805, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. The skin room would be partly underground for coolness, as it was believed this would alleviate the threat of worms to the furs and pelts.
19. Treat to Davy, July 1, 1806, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
20. Treat to Mason, Sept. 30, 1808, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810.
21. S. Treat to Mason, Sept. 10, 1810, NA, Microcopy M-142, Letter Book, Arkansas Trading House, 1805-1810. Samuel Treat was John's brother.
22. Morgan to Secretary of War, June 23, 1807, NA, RG 107, Ltrs. Recd., Secretary of War.
23. Articles of Partnership, "Scull Papers," Arkansas County Museum, Gillett, Arkansas.
24. Index to Book of Records (Deeds, Commissions, Indentures) Louisiana Territory, District of Arkansas, Aug. 3, 1808-Dec. 23, 1809, pp. 76-7; copy of Contract, "Scull Papers ,” Arkansas History Commission.
25. Arkansas County Deed Record Book A, pp. 163, 165, 196.
26. Laws of Arkansas Territory, "An Act making appropriations for the year eighteen hundred and twenty and part of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one," National Archives, RG 59.
27. Arkansas Gazette, Aug. 5, 1820.
31. Ibid., Aug. 26, 1823; Arkansas County Territorial Tax Lists for 1821 and 1823.
32. Donald C. Peattie, Audubon's America(Boston, 1940), pp. 145-46.
35. Walker to Hoffman, June 3, 1971. Dr. Michael P. Hoffman is a professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas.
36. Crittenden to Armstrong, Jan. 4, 1821, NA, RG 217.
37. Crittenden to Armstrong, July 4, 1821, NA, RG 217.
38. Arkansas Gazette, Nov. 3, 1821.
39. Arkansas County Territorial Tax Lists for 1821 and 1823.
40. Arkansas State Democrat, April 20, 1849. Notrebe had served as an officer in the militia; thereafter he was referred to as "Colonel Notrebe."
41. Boyd W. Johnson, "Frederick Notrebe," Historical Bulletin Grand Prairie Historical Society, V (April 1962), 26. In John Hallum, Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas (Albany, 1887), p. 108,the statement is made that Notrebe had served as an officer under Napoleon during the Consultate, after having participated in the revolution which dethroned the Bourbons. "He drew his sword, as he thought, in the interest of liberal institutions, certainly not to strengthen monarchy or depotism. When the first consul in 1804 threw off the mask and put on the crown, he sheathed his sword and came to free Arkansas." The fact that Notrebe served under Marshal Moncey in Spain in 1807-08 contradicts Hallum's statements.
42. Arkansas Gazette, July 17, 1886.
43. Arkansas County Deed Book C, pp. 64, 469.
44. Seventh Census, State of Arkansas, Arkansas
County, NA. G. W. Featherstonhaugh, who visited Arkansas in 1834 and 35,
reported that Notrebe had married a Creole with Indian blood in her
veins. G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion Through the Slave States,
from Washington on the Potomac to the Frontier of Mexico; with Sketches
of the Popular
Manners and Geological Notices, (2 vols.,
London, 1844), II, 234-35.
45. Arkansas Gazette, May 27, 1840, and
Sept. 22, 1841; Minutes of the Grand Jury, April 1845 Term, State of
Arkansas vs Etienne Vaugine, pp. 36-37. On Christmas Eve 1844, John
Turner, V. Peeler, and several others were gathered in the rear of John
Mc. Chesney's store, when young Notrebe entered. He was followed within
a few minutes by Etienne Vaugine, who sat down in the corner. Notrebe
walked over to Vaugine and asked, "What do you have against me?"
Vaugine's got to his feet and replied, but the witnesses were unable to
hear what he said.
The two men's voices got louder as they argued.
Notrebe shouted as he slapped Vaugine, "Damn you fight like a man!" One
of the bystanders intervened and vainly sought to lead Notrebe outside,
but he broke away and slapped Vaugine again. As Vaugine stepped back,
Notrebe "threw his hand down to his pocket." Peeler stepped between
them, as Notrebe pulled a pistol. As Vaugine and Notrebe wrestled for
the pistol, there was a bang!
Notrebe slumped to the floor, the
pistol falling by his side. As he collapsed he exclaimed, "Boys I am a
dead man, dead, pick me up and carry me away from this." Peeler knelt
down, and cradled Notrebe's head. Eugene Jordellas now entered the
store, and exclaimed, "Poor John are you dead?" Peeler and several
others picked up the dying boy and carried him to Dr. William Price's
house. By the time they reached the doctor's, he was dead. In April 1845
the Arkansas County Grand Jury, after questioning the witnesses, held
that Vaugine had killed John Notrebe in self defense, and he was
released from custody.
46. Hallum, Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas, 106-07; J. S. Utley, "Graves of Eminent Men," Publications of the Arkansas Historical Commission (Fayetteville, 1908), II, 275. Absalom Fowler and Albert Pike had been law partners of Cummins.
47. Thomas Nuttall, Travels into the Arkansas Territory, 1819, edited by Reuben G. Thwaites (Cleveland, 1905) p. 106.
48. William F. Pope, Early Days in Arkansas, Being the Most Part Personal Recollections of an Old Settler (Little Rock, 1895), pp. 66-67.
50. Washington Irving, The Western Journals of Washington Irving, edited by John F. McDermott (Norman, 1966), pp. 160, 168.
54. Featherstonhaugh, Excursion Through the Slave States, II, 234-35.
55. Hallum, Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas, p. 82.
56. Featherstonhough, Excursion Through the Slave States, II, 234.
57. Territorial Tax List for 1817 of Arkansas County.
58. Territorial Tax List for 1821 of Arkansas County. In the same year, the Mitchells who owned the lot on which Johnston & Armstrong's Store was located were credited with ownership of two town lots with improvements, valued at $1,600.
59. Arkansas County Tax Lists for 1836 and 1848.
60. Arkansas Gazette, Dec. 4, 1819.
62. Arkansas County Deed Book D, p. 301.
63. Arkansas Gazette, Aug. 21, 1827. The square purchased from Babcock was the one on which Jacob Bright & Co. had operated a trading house in the period 1804-07.
65 Ibid., Nov. 4, 1828. On July 17, 1835, Notrebe sold to his father-in-law for one dollar, "a house and two lots situated in the Post of Arkansas." The subject lots joined his "gin lot on the East and Creed Taylor's on the West." The lots adjoining the gin lot on the east included the one on which the Johnston and Armstrong Store had been located in 1819.
66. T. Farrelly to W. E. Woodruff, Dec. 4, 1846, found in Arkansas Gazette, Dec. 18, 1846.
67. Arkansas Gazette, June 19, 1839.
68. Arkansas County Deed Book F, pp. 390-91.
69. Arkansas Gazette, Feb. 8 and July 5, 1843.
70. Worley to Bearss, July 1, 1964, and Atkinson to Bearss, April 24, 1964. Ted Worley was Executive Secretary of the Arkansas History Commission, while J. H. Atkinson is a member of that body.
71. Arkansas State Democrat, April 20, 1849; Arkansas State Gazette, April 29, 1849.
72. Arkansas County Will Record A, pp. 174-79.
73. Ibid., pp. 174-75. Should any of the slaves selected by Mrs. Notrebe as her share of the estate become "averse and refractory to her command," she was privileged to exchange them with John and Mary.
75. Ibid., p. 176. Should Notrebe die before his granddaughter was of age or had married, the widow and John were to "superintend all her interest" and "have a particular care of William Cummins' three notes and mortgage" in Notrebe's favor.
77. Ibid. Notrebe was determined that John should be free from "all annoyance whatever from Mary's husband or anybody else in the government of the general interest" of the "estate jointly with his mother.”
79. Arkansas County Marriage Record Book B. The couple was married by Justice of the Peace William Maxwell.
80. Arkansas County Probate Record A, p. 154.
81. Ibid., pp. 164, 174, 183, 185, 205. The largest claim against the estate was submitted by St. Louis banker J. H. Lucus, who held four notes dated November 8, 1843, totaling $13,333.33 1/3. Other claimants were Dr. A. B. Bronson for $123; S. Pierce & Co. for$1,123.46; T. Farrelly for $135; W. B. Wait for $1,851.31; Byers & Chapman for $100; F. W. Trapnall for $1,199; Thomas Langrider for $91; and F. Menard for $471.10.
85. Arkansas County Deed Book H, p. 14.
86. Ibid., pp. 69-74, 204-09. There were 119 Notrebe slaves, which included: Gabriel, a 25-year-old mulatto; Maria, a 26-year-old black; Adelia, a 10-year-old mulatto; Helen, an 8-year-old mulatto; Mary Magness, a 5-year-old black; Shadrack, an 18-month-old black;Anderson, a 16-year-old black; Josephine, a l4-year-old mulatto; Charlotte, a 10-year-old mulatto; Tom Lawson, a 45-year-old black; Milly, a 50-year-old black; Edward M., a 26-year-old black; James Poney, a 22-year-old black; William, a l6-year-old black; Eli, an ll-year-old black; Lucinda, a l7-year-old black; Old Henry, a 47-year-old black; Sally, a 45-year-old black; Henrietta, a l3-year-old black; Sidney, a 9-year-old black; Dinah, an l8-year-old black; Old Lucy, a 72-year-old black; Little Daniel, a 32-year-old black; Polly, a 49-year-old black; Alice M., a 26-year-old black; Big Mary Ann, a 24-year-old mulatto;William Mead, a l5-year-old mulatto; Hersille, a l3-year-old black; Nelly M., a six-year-old mulatto; Mary Frances, a 4-year-old mulatto; Georgianne, a one-year-old mulatto; Leanna, an 18-year-old mulatto; Adelina, a l4-year-old mulatto; Jack, a 27-year-old black; Harriet, a 36-year-old black; Dane, an l8-year-old black; Matilda, a l6-year-oldb lack; George, a 59-year-old black; Old Lewis, a 39-year-old mulatto; Old Big Daniel, a 37-year-old black; Moses, a 31-year-old black; Black Joe, a 30-year-old black; Old Alexander, a 37-year-old mulatto; Dennis, a 33-year-old mulatto; Big Emily, a 46-year-old black; James Boy, a 28-year-old mulatto; Oliver, a 23-year-old mulatto; Therese, a 31- year-old mulatto; Andy, a 4-year-old black; a black one-year old son of Therese; Old Elizabeth, a l5-year-old black; Old Rachael, a l7-year-old black; Old Margaret, a l2-year-old black; Yellow Joe, a 22-year-old Mulatto; Little Mary Ann, an l8-year-old mulatto; Old Martha, a l5-year-old black; Minerva, a l3-year-old black; Old Victoria, an 11-year-old black; Old William Franklin, a 9-year-old mulatto; Pedro, a 7-year-old black; Pleasants, a 47-year-old mulatto; Big Mary, a 44-year-old black; Pink, a 24-year-old mulatto; Henry Pleasants, a 22-year-old mulatto; Jack Pleasants, a 20-year-old mulatto; Dolly Pleasants, an 18-year-old black; Rebecca, a l5-year-old black; Eliza Jane, a l4-year-old black; Charley Pleasants, an 11-year-old mulatto; Blind Henry, a 36-year-old mulatto; Richardson, a 2-year-old black; Angelina, a 28-year-old black; Julia Ann, a 25-year-old black; Little John, a 21-year-old black; Little Tom, an l8-year-old mulatto; Paulina, a 10-year-old black; Big Judith, a 47-year-old black; Annie, a 44-year-old black; William Palmer, a 14-year-old black; President Harrison, a 9-year-old black; Fanny, a 56-year-old black; Pamela, an 11-year-old black; Vina, a 22-year-old black; Vina's Tom, a 3-year-old mulatto; James Bryon, a 24-year-old black; Little Henry, a l6-year-old black; Sally Ann, a l4-year-old black; Gibson, a 4-year-old black; Ignace, a 24-year-old black; Sam, a 49-year-old black; Victoria Money, a 56-year-old black; Little Mary, a 44-year-old black; Isaac, a 42-year-old black; Belly, a 42-year-old black; Carter, a 42-year-old black; Big John, a 30-year-old black; Phyllis, a 48-year-old black; Black William, a 37-year-old black; Lucretia, a 9-year-old mulatto; George, a 7-year-old mulatto; Sylvia, a 27-year-old black; Robert, a 5-year-old black; Patsy, a 4-year-old black; Nitey, an 18-month-old black; Priscilla, a 53-year-old black; Eliza, a 34-year-old mulatto; Phillip, a 15-year-old mulatto; Solomon, a 19-year-old mulatto; Louisa, a l7-year-old mulatto; Rosetta, an 8-year-old mulatto; Daphne, a 43-year-old black; Little Judith, a 33-year-old black; LittleSam, an l8-year-old black; Martha Goody, a 31-year-old black; Mary Violet, a 10-year-old black; Hannah, a 5-year-old black; Spencer, a 7-year-old black; and Julia's black son of 8 months.
87. Arkansas County Deed Book I, p. 17.
88. Arkansas County Chancery Record A, pp. 100-01.
91. Arkansas County Chancery Record A, pp. 185-86.
92. Seventh Census, Schedule 4, Arkansas Township, Arkansas County, County Clerk's Office, DeWitt, Ark. The Mortons at this time listed their ages at 29 and 16. Mrs. Morton, who had been a child bride, had already given birth to a daughter, Francine.
93. John W. Walker, Excavation of the Arkansas Post Branch of the Bank of the State of Arkansas (Washington, 1971), pp. 20-24; E. C. Bearss, "The Battle of Post of Arkansas ," The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, XVIII (Autumn 1959), 237-79.
94. Hallum, Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas, pp. 82-83. Albert Pike recalled in 1887 that Mrs. Morton "is well remembered in Little Rock in connection with the harsh and unmanly treatment which she and her little children suffered at the hands of General Reynolds during the Federal occupation of the city."
95. William H. Halli Burton, "Reconstruction in Arkansas County," Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association (Fayetteville, 1908), II, 481-82.
III. THE SITE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Arkansas Gazette, Dec. 2, 1900. Madame Forreste was the daughter of Jean Jordellas and Cecile Julien. Her father's people had come over to Louisiana with the Le Moyne brothers, while her mother's ancestors had descended the Mississippi from New France. Madame Forreste had been born and had spent her childhood on her father's farm at the west end of South Bend. Terence Farrelly had settled at Arkansas Post in 1818. Subsequently, he married the Widow Moseley and moved onto her plantation. At the turn of the century, his descendants still owned the plantation, located several miles northwest of Arkansas Post.
8. Fletcher Chenault, "Arkansas Post is Neglected Shrine,” Arkansas Gazette. Nov. 11, 1926. The guide was mistaken, because the first territorial capitol (Montgomery's Tavern) was a frame structure. The brick remains seen were at the site of the State Bank.
11. Chenault, "Arkansas Post is Neglected Shrine," Arkansas Gazette. Nov. 11, 1926.
12. Acts of Arkansas, Act 57, 1929.
13. Minutes of Feb. 11, 1930, Meeting of Arkansas Post Park Commission, files Arkansas History Commission. Members in attendance besides Burnett and Herndon were: Mesdames C. J. Brain, Charles H. Miller, W. W. Lowe, and Maude B. Lewis, Miss Janie Woodruff, and Fletcher Chenault. Members not in attendance were: Mesdames J. F. Weinman, M. F. Sigmon, and J. L. Rosencrantz, and Mr. S. G. Catlett.
15. Wilbur to Glover, Feb. 12, 1930, files Arkansas History Commission. Ray Lyman Wilbur was Secretary of the Interior in 1930.
16. Ibid. Surveys made of the area in the period 1816-20 showed only the out-boundary lines of Post of Arkansas. In addition, they failed to give the acreage involved.
20. Arkansas County Deed Book 26, p. 206.
21. Maude B. Lewis, "Deed is Given to Ark. Post Park," files Arkansas History Commission. The Reverend Mr. Harrell gave the invocation; C. A. Jacobus, principal of the Gillett High School, welcomed the audience; Mrs. Maude Lewis made the response and read two of her poems; Arkansas County Superintendent of Schools J. M. Henderson, Representative Ballard Deane, Miss Hazel Cline of Shreveport, and Mesdames J. L. Rosencrantz and C. J. Brain all made speeches.
23. Annual Report of Work Accomplished at Arkansas Post State Park, 1931, files Arkansas History Commission.
24. Grand Prairie Leader, Feb. 26 and March 12, 1931. Howson's contract with the Commission provided that he was to be paid ten per cent of the cost of labor and materials, plus mileage between his home in Pine Bluff and Arkansas Post. Ibid., April 9, 1931.
25. Ibid., March 12, 1931. At the February 1930
meeting of the Commission, it was observed that the road from Arkansas
Post to the main highway near Gillett needed improvement. A committee
was appointed to contact the State Highway Department and see if that
agency could be prevailed upon to take action to improve this situation.
The committee, however, failed in its goal. Minutes of Feb. 11, 1930,
Meeting of Arkansas
Post Park Commission, files Arkansas History
Commission.
26. Grand Prairie Leader, Apri1 9, 1931; Minutes of April 7, 1931, Meeting of Arkansas Post Park Commission, files Arkansas History Commission. The $5,000 appropriated for Park development had been deposited in the two DeWitt banks, and the Finance Committee given authority to draw on these funds for the scheduled improvements. Members of the Building Committee were: W. J. Burnett, and Mesdames W. W. Love, George C. Lewis, C. J. Brain, and J. L. Rosencrantz.
28. Ibid. The Building committee was admonished to proceed "cautiously with the money on hand to obtain as many permanent improvements as possible with the appropriation."
29. Annual Report of Work Accomplished at Arkansas Post State Park, 1931, files Arkansas History Commission.
30. Ibid.; Grand Prairie Leader, June 25, 1931.
31. Ibid. Cattle guards were placed at the Park entrance.
32. Ibid. The Refeld-Hindman House was located on the Quandt property. Mrs. C. J. Brain donated a mantel for one of the lodge fireplaces. Telephone conversation, Mrs. Thelma Mattmiller with Bearss, June 17, 1971. Mrs. Mattmiller, a knowledgeable local historian and curator of the Arkansas County Museum, is a gold mine of information on the Refeld-Hindman House.
33. Annual Report of Work Accomplished at APSP,
1931. At this time the Commission mistakenly believed that the rubble of
the Arkansas State Bank was at the site of the first
territorial
capitol--Montgomery's Tavern. The bricks were in a "wonderful state of
preservation, many of them being almost as perfect as when they were
moulded."
35. Ibid. The benches had been built locally by one of the members and were neat and substantial. Additional benches could be built and delivered to the Park for $5 each. The picnic area was enclosed with cedar posts to prevent motorists from driving onto the grounds.
36. Many local people believed, incorrectly, that the ravines and gullies had resulted from the erosion of the Civil War fortifications.
37. Annual Report of Work Accomplished at Arkansas Post State Park, 1931, files Arkansas History Commission.
39. Ibid.; Grand Prairie Leader, June 25,
1931. These plantings included: 8 ligustrum lucidum, 30 pomegranates, 38
spirea reevesiana, 36 spirea van houtti, 16 spirea thunbergi, 10 spirea
a waterer, 39 deutzia, 36 weiglia, 59 assorted althia, 78 climbing
roses, 10 forsythia, 30 crepe myrtle, 30 stuart pecan, 10 weeping
willow, 18 tulip poplars,
20 chinese elms, 20 euonymus, 32 amurriver
privet (sheared), 120 amur river privet, 8 bittersweet, 2 bakers astor
vitae, 12 bonita arbor vitae, 8 excelas arbor vitae, and 2 lombardy
poplars.
40. Grand Prairie Leader, Aug. 20, 1931. The president of the Home Demonstration Club was Mrs. W. C. Butcher.
41. Annual Report of Work Accomplished at Arkansas Post, 1931 files Arkansas History Commission.
42. 72d Congress, 1st Session, H.R. 7113; Congressional Record, Vol. 75, Pt. 2, 72d Congress, 1st Session.
43. Minutes of July 19, 1934, Meeting, Arkansas Post State Park Commission, files Arkansas History Commission.
44. Amsler to Burnett, Jan. 26, 1935, Arkansas Post State Park Commission, files Arkansas History Commission.
45. Herndon to W. R. Hogan, Aug. 22, 1935; Report of Arkansas State Park Commission 1936 files Arkansas History Commission. Hogan had written on August 22 that Arkansas Post State Park had been designated for CCC development.
46. W. H. Halliburton, "An Arkansan Visits Arkansas Post," Arkansas Gazette, Jan. 22, 1939.
47. Ibid. The scales of justice had been torn from the statue's upraised hand many years before by a tornado.
48. Summary statement prepared by Archeologist Walker for the author, May 27, 1971.
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