Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas . te in July, May i, 16S6, Henri de Tonty established thefirst white settlement at Arkansas Post, leaving theresix Frenchmen. It then formed a part of the famousLouisiana Territory, which extended to Florida on theeast, Texas on the west, the Gulf of Mexico on thesouth, and what is now the Dominion of Canada on thenorth. In 1S03, Napoleon Bonaparte, fearing its lossto England, ceded this immense region to the United Washington. It has an area of square miles of 52,198;in acres, 33,406,720. It is divided into 76 counties, andhad, according to
Pine Bluff and Jefferson County, Arkansas . te in July, May i, 16S6, Henri de Tonty established thefirst white settlement at Arkansas Post, leaving theresix Frenchmen. It then formed a part of the famousLouisiana Territory, which extended to Florida on theeast, Texas on the west, the Gulf of Mexico on thesouth, and what is now the Dominion of Canada on thenorth. In 1S03, Napoleon Bonaparte, fearing its lossto England, ceded this immense region to the United Washington. It has an area of square miles of 52,198;in acres, 33,406,720. It is divided into 76 counties, andhad, according to the census of 1870, a population of484,471. The census of 1880 gave Arkansas a popula-tion of 802,525; that of 1890, 1,128,178. The Arkansas river, taking its rise in the RockyMountains of Colorado, flows in a southeasterly coursea distance of 2,000 miles to the Mississippi river; itpasses diagonally through the State, and it, with theWhite, Red, Black, Wachita, Saline and other rivers,affords navigable highways in the State of over 3,500. MAIN STREET, LOOKING SOUTH FROM BARRAQUE States in consideration of an aggregate sum of $15,000,-000. From the year of cession immigrants from Can-ada and from Europe began to come. Year by yeartheir number swelled, so that in a brief period thisregion was sufficiently populated to call for the estab-lishment of Territories and States. Arkansas became a Territory in March 1S19, a Stateon June 15, 1S36. Its boundaries are: Missouri on thenorth, Louisiana on the south, the Mississippi river onthe east, and the Indian Territory on the west. It liesbetween the 33d and 37th degrees of north latitude, andbetween the 12th and iSth of longitude west from miles, or greater than the waterways of any other Stateof the Union. About one-fourth of the lands of the State are level,the rest being hilly or mountainous. The northern,western, central and part of the southwestern countie*are hilly or mountainous, yet fertile for grain or sections of th
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