Ouachita Crossing

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Ouachita Crossing

This 1859 view of Rockport shows the Military Road leading northeast from the river toward Little Rock.  Choctaws and Chickasaws used this crossing on their trek from Little Rock to Fort Towson.

Source: David Dale Owen, Second Report of a Geogological Reconissance if the Middle and Southern Counties of Arkansas.  (Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Co, Printer, 1860) opposite-105.

 

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