Fort Smith, city, United States

Fort Smith, city (1990 pop. 72,798), seat of Sebastian co., NW Ark., at the Okla. line where the Arkansas and Poteau rivers join; inc. 1842. It is the rail, trade, and industrial center of a farm and livestock area. Its manufactures include construction materials, food and beverages, textiles, furniture, and hardware. An 1817 military post here became a supply point during the 1848 gold rush; the lawless area was cleaned up (1870s) by "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker Parker, Isaac Charles, 1838–96, American frontier judge, b. Belmont co., Ohio. Self-taught in law, Parker began practice in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1859. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1870 as a Republican.
..... Click the link for more information. , but Bordello Row and other reminders are celebrated today. The

Fort Smith National Historic Site includes the Old Fort Museum and Judge Parker's court (see National Parks and Monuments National Parks and Monuments

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Acadia NP SE Maine 1919 48,419 (19,603) Mountain and coast scenery.
..... Click the link for more information. , table). A national Civil War cemetery and an annual rodeo draw visitors. In 1969 the city was linked by the Arkansas River project with the Gulf of Mexico; the dam built east of Fort Smith created a large lake.

The plant Hill create 1,000 jobs but will also cost 750 jobs at a plant in Fort Smith, Arkansas by October 2006.

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of the neighbouring MacKenzie Fort Smith diocese has acted as administrator over the last two and a half years.

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Garrison, then the Fort Smith Public School District's superintendent, supported the idea of creating such a relationship and began an effort to determine which district school would benefit most from a teaming arrangement.

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