Arkansaw, West Virginia | |
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  Arkansaw  Arkansaw | |
| Coordinates: 39°4′28″N78°43′45″W / 39.07444°N 78.72917°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Hardy |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1550114 [1] |
Arkansaw (sometimes misspelled Arkansas) is an unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on Arkansaw Road (County Route 3/2) off West Virginia Route 29.
Boone County is located in the U.S. state of Arkansas, along the Missouri border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,373. The county seat is Harrison. It is Arkansas's 62nd county, formed on April 9, 1869.
William Read Miller was the 12th Governor of Arkansas. Born in Batesville, Arkansaw Territory; Miller was Arkansas's first native born Governor. Serving two terms in the turbulent period after Reconstruction, Miller's four-year administration marked the beginnings of New Departure Democrats in Arkansas. Running on a platform of economic growth via reconciliation between whites and freedmen, Miller often was opposed by members of his own party during the infancy of the Lost Cause ideology. His plans to pay back a large state debt including the Holford Bonds, valued at $14 million, were often interrupted by racial violence, and his support for public schools and universities was often combated by those in his own party.
The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).
The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812, until August 10, 1821. In 1819, the Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri, and the rest became unorganized territory for several years.
Arkansaw may refer to:
Arkansas is a southern U.S. state.
Highway 392 is a 10.44-mile (16.80 km) state highway in the Ozark Mountains in northern Arkansas. The highway runs from U.S. Highway 62 (US 62) and US 412 in Little Arkansaw east to AR 7 in Harrison. The route is located entirely in Boone County, and also serves the communities of Batavia and Capps. AR 392 is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
Arkansaw is an unincorporated census-designated place in the eastern portion of the town of Waterville, in Pepin County, Wisconsin, United States. Located approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Durand, it has the ZIP code of 54721. As of the 2010 census, its population was 177. From 1881 to 1886, the community was the county seat of Pepin County.
Davidsonville Historic State Park is a 163-acre (66 ha) Arkansas state park in Randolph County, Arkansas in the United States. Situated on a border between The Ozarks and the Arkansas Delta, the park preserves the remains of the abandoned frontier town of Davidsonville. The town was one of Arkansas Territory's first settlements when founded in 1815, serving as an important river port town on the Black River. The former townsite was made into a state park in 1957 and a monument was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Short Mountain is a mountain ridge that runs southwest northeast through Hampshire and Hardy counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, rising to its greatest elevation at Bald Knob near Arkansaw, West Virginia. Short Mountain's name is derived from its original name of Short Arse Mountain.
The 1820 United States presidential election in Missouri took place between November 1 to December 6, 1820. The Missouri state legislature chose 3 electors, who voted for president and vice president. Missouri Territory was formed just after Louisiana was admitted to fill the old space of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1820, they split off a portion of Missouri Territory into what would become the new state of Missouri. However, the heated debate had begun after Congress could not decide whether its electoral votes in the upcoming election would count, or if it should be rejected and would vote in 1824. This debate would later be overshadowed with issues regarding the expansion of slavery out west, and whether Missouri would be a free or slave state. Eventually, the Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to be a slave state, however, they could not admit any more states above a line marked by the new Arkansaw Territory.
Takatoka,, was the second Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation—West (1813–1817) established in the old Arkansaw Territory.
Piney is a census-designated place (CDP) in Adair County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 115 at the 2010 census. Piney was the "head town" of the first wave of relocated Cherokee people who relocated there from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States.
Little Arkansaw is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Arkansas, United States. Little Arkansaw is located on Arkansas Highway 392 near its junction with U.S. Route 62 and U.S. Route 412, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) east of Alpena.
The Jackson and McMinn Treaty settled land disputes between The United States, the Cherokee Nation, and other tribes following the early re-settlement of the Old Settlers of the Cherokee people to the Arkansaw Territory following the Red Stick War.
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