BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, March 6\, at noon\, for an extra special Sandw iching in History tour on the topic of Arkansas Post\, held at Arkansas Po st Museum State Park. [NOTE: This is an updated location.]\n\n\nThis tour will be an America250 event in celebration of the U.S. Semiquincentennial. \n\n We will begin at 12:00 p.m. with a brief dedication ceremony for a new Arkansas250 historical marker.\n Our regular Sandwiching in Histor y tour presentation will immediately follow.\n\nThe story of Arkansas Post is a story of America\, weaving together many nations\, ethnicities\, asp irations\, and struggles. It&rsquo\;s not a neat and tidy narrative\, but that makes it all the more fascinating.\n\nFounded as a French trading pos t among the Quapaw in 1686\, Arkansas Post was the first European settleme nt in what is now the state of Arkansas. It was the setting of the only Re volutionary War battle on the soil of our future state. The US acquired it with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Post became territorial Arkansas &rsquo\; first seat of government from 1819 until Little Rock was made the capital in 1821. During the Civil War\, it was the site of Fort Hindman\, which fell to Federal troops in the 1863 Battle of Arkansas Post\, and th e post settlement faded into history. It was designated a National Histori c Landmark in 1960.\n DTEND:20260306T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260813T090025Z DTSTART:20260306T180000Z LOCATION:Arkansas\,US\,Gillett\,5530 Hwy. 165 South SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sandwiching in History & Historical Marker Dedication: Arkansas Pos t (America250) UID:RFCALITEM639222084258845900 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us Friday\, March 6\, at noon\, for an ex tra special Sandwiching in History tour on the topic of Arkansas Post\, he ld at Arkansas Post Museum State Park. [NOTE: This is an updated location.]
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Th is tour will be an America250 event in celebration of the U.S. Semiquincen tennial.

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The story of Arkansas Post is a story of America\, weaving together many nations\, ethnicities\, aspiratio ns\, and struggles. It&rsquo\;s not a neat and tidy narrative\, but that m akes it all the more fascinating.
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\nFounded as a French tradi ng post among the Quapaw in 1686\, Arkansas Post was the first European se ttlement in what is now the state of Arkansas. It was the setting of the o nly Revolutionary War battle on the soil of our future state. The US acqui red it with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Post became territorial Ar kansas&rsquo\; first seat of government from 1819 until Little Rock was ma de the capital in 1821. During the Civil War\, it was the site of Fort Hin dman\, which fell to Federal troops in the 1863 Battle of Arkansas Post\, and the post settlement faded into history. It was designated a National H istoric Landmark in 1960.

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