Arkansas Ties ... A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That, and a Whole Lot of Arkansas

Toltec Mounds 490 Toltec Mounds Road Scott, Lonoke County, AR 72142-9502 (501) 961-9442 100 Acres, 18 Mounds   Trees planted at the Toltec Mounds Park in memory of: Mary Reta Green Longboat, Mohawk  * Chief Joseph, Nez Perce * Quenton Palmer * Quatie Ross, Cherokee Joseph Paw-Ne-No-Pashe, Osage (Governor Joe) * Victims of the Trail of Tears* Edward Edney, CherokeeLeroy Walker, Sauk - Fox * Dock Griffen Henley, Cherokee * Zack (Cherokee) & Ida (Choctaw) Parson Wayne Redhorse, Lakota * Carlene Shuffield, Comanche * Saracen, Quapaw * Rosey Marie Gibson Bomberry, Seneca Clara Castillo, Coushatta * Rosey Lemons, Cherokee * Aline Williams, Choctaw Arkansas Gazette - 1936 Smithsonian Explorations - Smithsonian archaeologists  once explored prehistoric mounds near Toltec on property originally entered for Gen. Andrew Jackson.  In 1895, the property was owned by Mrs. Mary Eliza Field Knapp.  Mounds ranging from six to 80 feet high in a 90-acre enclosure were surrounded by a 10-foot levee and bordered "Lake Mound," two and half miles long and one-half mile wide.   External Links:  Toltec Mounds State Park  Uof A - http://www.cast.uark.edu/parkin/toltecvisitpg.html