MONTICELLO, AR — The School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello is one of six organizations sponsoring the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase Land Survey, which will include events at three venues in Lee and Phillips Counties on October 17.
UAM is home to the state’s only accredited four-year baccalaureate program in land surveying and has taken an active role and interest in commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase survey, which had its beginnings in the delta of eastern Arkansas.
The bicentennial observance will take place at Mississippi River State Park near Marianna, Louisiana Purchase State Park near Holly Grove, and at the confluence of the St. Francis and Mississippi Rivers near Helena. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors will experience life in an 1815 living history village, discover the importance of land surveying field notes and make their own survey field book, watch living historians recreate the 1922 survey of the original Louisiana Purchase baseline and a reenactment of the 1926 dedication of the survey monument, watchliving historians portray 19th century surveying practices, and see the Aux Arc, a 40-foot keelboat replica.
UAM is currently observing the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase survey by displaying an exhibit on loan from the Department of Arkansas Heritage which tells the history of the Louisiana Purchase and the survey that had its beginnings in the Arkansas delta.
For more information, contact Dr. John Dennis, assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Natural Resources by calling (870) 460-1594.
UAM is home to the state’s only accredited four-year baccalaureate program in land surveying and has taken an active role and interest in commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase survey, which had its beginnings in the delta of eastern Arkansas.
The bicentennial observance will take place at Mississippi River State Park near Marianna, Louisiana Purchase State Park near Holly Grove, and at the confluence of the St. Francis and Mississippi Rivers near Helena. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors will experience life in an 1815 living history village, discover the importance of land surveying field notes and make their own survey field book, watch living historians recreate the 1922 survey of the original Louisiana Purchase baseline and a reenactment of the 1926 dedication of the survey monument, watchliving historians portray 19th century surveying practices, and see the Aux Arc, a 40-foot keelboat replica.
UAM is currently observing the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase survey by displaying an exhibit on loan from the Department of Arkansas Heritage which tells the history of the Louisiana Purchase and the survey that had its beginnings in the Arkansas delta.
For more information, contact Dr. John Dennis, assistant professor in the School of Forestry and Natural Resources by calling (870) 460-1594.
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