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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 30, 2024
The Sulphur Fork Factory
From 1817 to 1822, the "Sulphur Fork Factory" stood at the confluence of the Sulphur into the Red River in today's Miller County, Arkansas.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 24, 2024
The Fort Bird Treaty of 1842
After the Battle of Village Creek, the Republic of Texas signed the Fort Bird Treaty of 1842.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 17, 2024
The Oldest Church in Louisiana
St. Anne's Church in Natchitoches Parish may be the church with the oldest congregation in the state of Louisiana.
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 12, 2024
Thousands of Mounds, or: Red River Acne
What are these "earth pimples" (acne!) as some researchers have described the circular mounds that appear in all over the Red River Valley?
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Robin Cole-Jett
Oct 2, 2024
The Red River, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819
A lot of shenanigans and the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 established the Red River as the southern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
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