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Town of Pine Bluff
Arkansas Gazette, August 22, 1832
Town of Pine Bluff,
(Jefferson County.)
The Lots in this town will be offered for sale, at Auction, on
Monday, the 15th day of October next, and succeeding days, on a
credit of six and twelve months, the purchaser giving bond with
approved security.
The locality of this town is on the south side of the Arkansas
river, about fifty miles below Little Rock, and equidistant
above the Post of Arkansas, on a handsomely elevated bluff bank,
the first that presents itself in ascending this noble river.
This bluff, and the plain several miles in its rear, are covered
with lofty pine of the finest quality, which, taken in
connection with a large Cypress, a few miles above, and adjacent
to the river, which is surrounded by four or five saw-mills,
presents, perhaps, the greatest facilities for building, that
can be found west of the Mississippi.
For twenty miles above and below this site, and on both sides of
the river, are to be found the most fertile, wide, and
continuous bottoms of land that this river furnishes,
principally above high-water mark, affording to the cultivator
of the soil, a prospect for the growing of cotton, as well as
all the productions necessary for the sustenance and comforts of
life, not to be surpassed. The Bayou Bartelemi, which runs
through this county parallel to the Arkansas river, a few miles
south of this place, is clothed with rich bottoms, sufficient to
sustain a dense population. This stream already claims a
flourishing and increasing settlement.
Jefferson county is now rapidly increasing in population,
wealth, and enterprise, and from the fact that it contains
larger bodies of fertile cotton land than any county of the same
extent in the Territory, in connexion with many local
advantages, it will necessarily give a respectability and
importance to its permanent and central Seat of Justice, which
few other locations can boast.
Pine Bluff is as healthy and beautiful a situation as to be
found on the Arkansas river, and affords every inducement to the
mechanic and merchants that any new town in a new and promising
country could present.
John W. Pullen,
Ja's. T. Pullen, Proprietors
Pine Bluff, August 22d, 1832
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