Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith National Historic Site
IUCN category V (protected landscape/seascape)
Part of historic Fort Smith

Location	Sebastian County, Arkansas & Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA
Nearest city	Fort Smith, Arkansas
Coordinates	35°23′18″N 94°25′47″W / 35.388210°N 94.429834°W / 35.388210; -94.429834Coordinates: 35°23′18″N 94°25′47″W / 35.388210°N 94.429834°W / 35.388210; -94.429834
Area	75 acres (30 ha)
Established	September 13, 1961
Visitors	86,122 (in 2011)
Governing body	National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/fosm/index.htm

U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated	October 15, 1966
Reference no.	66000202^[1]

U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Designated	December 19, 1960

Fort Smith National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located primarily in Fort Smith, Arkansas along the Arkansas River, and also along the opposite bank of the river near Moffett, Oklahoma.

The site was established in 1961 in order to protect the remains of two 19th-century U.S. military forts, including a building which once housed the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Fort Smith was also notable as a major stop along the "Trail of Tears." It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.^[1]^[2]

The park visitor center is now located in the old Barracks/Courthouse/Jail building. Exhibits in the visitor center focus on Fort Smith’s military history from 1817–1871, western expansion, Judge Isaac Parker and the federal court's impact on Indian Territory, U.S. Deputy Marshals and outlaws, Federal Indian policy, and Indian Removal including the Trail of Tears.

Located on the grounds are the foundation remains of the first Fort Smith (1817–1824), the commissary building (c. 1838) and a reconstruction of the gallows used by the federal court. A walking trail along the Arkansas River includes wayside exhibits on the Trail of Tears.

The courtroom of "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker
Site of the 1818 fort
Commissary building

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fort Smith". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-26.
↑ Frank B. Sarls, Jr. (December 10, 1958) National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings: Fort Smith (First and Second Sites) and Judge Parker Courtroom, National Park Service and Accompanying 4 photos, exterior, from 1940 and undated.

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Official site: Fort Smith National Historic Site

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National Historic Sites:	Fort Smith Washita Battlefield

National Recreation Areas:	Chickasaw

National Forests:	Ouachita

USFS National Recreation Areas:	Winding Stair Mountain

National Grasslands:	Black Kettle Rita Blanca

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National Wildlife Refuges:	Deep Fork Little River Optima Ozark Plateau Salt Plains Sequoyah Tishomingo Washita Wichita Mountains

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Protected areas of Arkansas

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National Park	Hot Springs

National Historic Sites	Fort Smith Little Rock Central High School President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home

National Forests	Ouachita Ozark-St. Francis

National Memorial	Arkansas Post

National Military Park	Pea Ridge

National River	Buffalo

National Wildlife Refuges	Bald Knob Big Lake Cache River Felsenthal Holla Bend Logan Cave Overflow Pond Creek Wapanocca White River

Wilderness Areas	Big Lake Black Fork Mountain Buffalo National River Caney Creek Dry Creek East Fork Flatside Hurricane Creek Leatherwood Poteau Mountain Richland Creek Upper Buffalo

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State Parks	Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources Arkansas Post Museum Bull Shoals-White River Cane Creek Conway Cemetery Cossatot River Crater of Diamonds Crowley's Ridge Daisy Davidsonville Historic DeGray Lake Resort Delta Heritage Trail Devil's Den Hampson Archeological Museum Herman Davis Historic Washington Hobbs Jacksonport Jenkins' Ferry Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine Lake Charles Lake Chicot Lake Dardanelle Lake Fort Smith Lake Frierson Lake Ouachita Lake Poinsett Logoly Louisiana Purchase Lower White River Museum Mammoth Spring Marks' Mills Millwood Mississippi River Moro Bay Mount Magazine Mount Nebo Ozark Folk Center Parkin Archeological Petit Jean Pinnacle Mountain Plantation Agriculture Museum Poison Springs Battleground Powhatan Historic Prairie Grove Battlefield Queen Wilhelmina South Arkansas Arboretum Toltec Mounds Archeological Village Creek State Park\|Village Creek White Oak Lake Withrow Springs Woolly Hollow

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Butterfield Overland Mail 7th Division Stations

Colbert's Ferry Fisher's Nail's Boggy Depot Geary's Waddell's Blackburn's Pusley's Riddle's Holloway's Trahern's Walker's Fort Smith Source: "List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route"". New York Times. October 14, 1858.

Butterfield Overland Mail 8th Division Stations

Fort Smith

to Memphis	Charleston Paris Stinnett's Dardanelle Norristown Pottsville Inn Hurricane Lewisburg Plumer's Cadron Station Atlanta Des Arc Madison Memphis

to Tipton	Fort Smith Van Buren Woolsey's (Signal Hill) Brodie's(Lee Creek) Park's Fayetteville Fitzgerald's Callahan's Harbin's Crouch's Smith's Ashmore's Springfield Evan's Smith's Bolivar Yoast's Quincy Bailey's Warsaw Burns' Mulholland's Schackleford's Tipton (Pacific Railroad to St. Louis)

Source: "List of Butterfield Overland Mail Stations "Itinerary of the Route"". New York Times. October 14, 1858.

Fort Smith National Historic Site

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