Meeting of Nations

The Fort Smith Council was held in this building in September 1865. To establish relations following the Civil War, delegates of twelve Indian nations met with President Andrew Johnson’s representatives. Bitterly divided, Indians had fought for both sides in the ...

Confederates Occupy The Fort

At the beginnings of the Civil War, “amid the firing of cannon and the cheers of the people,” a local newspaper reported, Arkansas State Militia raised the Confederate flag and took control of Fort Smith on April 23, 1861.

With the ...

Executions at Fort Smith

During the twenty-four years the federal executions took place in Fort Smith, eighty-seven men died on the gallows. While Judge Isaac C. Parker sat on the bench, 160 people, including four women, were sentenced to hang. Just over half received ...

The Gallows

With the largest criminal jurisdiction of any federal court at the time, the Western District of Arkansas handled an extraordinary number of murder and rape cases. When a jury found defendants guilty in these capital cases, federal law mandated the ...

Fort Wall

Security has always been a concern for the U.S. military. The army designed the second Fort Smith (1838-1871) as part of line of forts from Minnesota to Louisiana to separate the territory occupied by Native American tribes from that settled ...

Battle of Chattanooga, 2d Day, Nov. 24.

During the night of Nov. 23, 1863, Gen. Sherman crossed the Tennessee at the mouth of the Chickamauga, under orders to carry the north end of Missionary Ridge to the railroad tunnel. He seized the ground now known as Sherman ...

Temple Quarry Trailhead

Pioneer workmen transported basalt stone

blocks for construction of the Saint George

LDS Temple foundation by wagon over this

"Temple Quarry Trail".

Completion of the trailhead, archway, and

access to the trail has long been Dr. Mark H,

Greene's dream. The City of Saint George

dedicates ...

Utah Is Rich in Aviation History

The first regularly scheduled overland passenger flight in the USA was made by Western Air Express on May 23, 1926, from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles. This 50-foot concrete arrow was one of four here in the St. George ...

Hancock Park

La Brea Pits

Presented to

The Citizens of Los Angeles County

In December 1916 by

Captain Allan Hancock

With a request that the scientific

features be preserved

First historic reference to the tar pools

Recorded in the diary of Caspar ...

Chipley - Pine Mountain, Georgia

Chipley was incorporated on December 9, 1882, following the extension of the Columbus and Rome Railroad one mile north of the Village of Hood. Old Hood was the predecessor of Chipley. Chipley was named after Colonel W. D. Chipley, a ...