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Digging for History at Old Washington
Mary L. Kwas
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Description for Digging for History at Old Washington
Hardcover. Positioned along the Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce, business, and county government in the 19th century. This title explores the public and private lives of the Block and Sanders families to offer a look at an antebellum town at the height of its prosperity. Num Pages: 170 pages, 79 colour photographs, 5 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 267 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 780.
This title presents an uncommon view of an antebellum town. Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce, business, and county government in the nineteenth century. Historical figures such as Davy Crockett and Sam Houston passed through, and during the Civil War, when the Federal troops occupied Little Rock, the Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington served as the seat of state government. A prosperous town fully involved in the events and society of the territorial, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, Washington became in a way ... Read more
This title presents an uncommon view of an antebellum town. Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce, business, and county government in the nineteenth century. Historical figures such as Davy Crockett and Sam Houston passed through, and during the Civil War, when the Federal troops occupied Little Rock, the Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington served as the seat of state government. A prosperous town fully involved in the events and society of the territorial, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, Washington became in a way ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288981
SKU
V9781557288981
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Ref
99-15
About Mary L. Kwas
Mary L. Kwas is a research associate for the Arkansas Archeological Survey and has worked for the survey since 1996. She is the recipient of the 2007 Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology. Jay S. Miller is Administrator of Program Services for Arkansas State Parks.
Reviews for Digging for History at Old Washington
History, mystery almost solved, the separating of fact from fiction, and archeological discoveries are revealed in the lives of Abraham Block and Simon Sanders. Their stories intertwine with the history of Washington, Arkansas, as they all came of age on the Southwest Trail. - Jay S. Miller, From the Foreword