Template:Wp-Arkansas Post National Memorial

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Arkansas Post National Memorial is a protected area in Arkansas County, Arkansas in the United States. The National Park Service manages of the land, and the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism manages a museum on the remaining grounds. Arkansas Post was the first European settlement in present-day Arkansas when Henri de Tonti established it in 1686. The memorial commemorates the history of European-American settlers who inhabited the small entrepôt as the first Arkansans, an American Revolutionary War skirmish in 1783, the first territorial capital of Arkansas from 1819–1821, and a Civil War Battle in 1863.