Pine Buff,Ar and downriver
Picture Set [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]
Entrance to the Port of Pine Bluff - Arkansas' first and finest port.
Emmett Sanders Lock and Dam, a little downstream from the port.
Across the river from the lock and dam is the Pine Bluff Paper Mill.
Arkansas Post National Monument. This site was a Quapaw Indian villiage where Henri de Tonti
established a trading post in 1686, a Revolutiionary War skirmish site, the first capital of
the Arkansas Territory, and the Civil War Battle of Fort Hindman.
Inside a display representing the cotton industry in the southeast Arkansas area.
Fort Hindman was a confederate fort in the Civil War and was captured by the Union forces in 1861.
The body of water was the Arkansas River but shifted and left this oxbow lake.
Behind the monument's headquarters is a partial layout of a town. In the early 1800's the
population reached a height of over 1000. During the Civil War the battle ruined much of the
town and it never recovered.
From the old town site, the river can be seen.
Bridge over the Arkansas just a short ways from the Post.
The Arkansas upstream from the Wilbur Mills Lock and Dam. This lock and dam connects to a
25 mile canal that connects to the confluence of the White and the Mississippi Rivers.
Also in the same area is the last dam on the Arkansas, which keeps the water level high
enough for barge traffic. From a map the river must meander on for another 20 or 30 miles
before entering the Mississippi.
Picture Set [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]
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