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History Museum Attractions In Gillett

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Arkansas Post Museum

Arkansas Post National Memorial

Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art

B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center

Casino at Fitzgeralds Hotel

Sam's Town Casino

Hollywood Casino Tunica

The Delta Blues Museum

Gillett is a city in Arkansas County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 691 at the 2010 census. Gillett is the home of the annual Gillett Coon Supper. The Arkansas Post National Memorial is located southeast of the town. The largest alligator ever killed in Arkansas was harpooned near Gillett on September 19, 2010. The thirteen-foot one-inch reptile weighed 680 pounds.
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History Museum Attractions In Gillett

1. Arkansas Post Museum Gillett
Arkansas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,019. Located in the Arkansas Delta, the county has two county seats, De Witt and Stuttgart.The first of the state's 75 present-day counties to be created, Arkansas County was formed on December 13, 1813, when this area was part of the Missouri Territory. The county was named after the Arkansas River , as was the subsequent Arkansas Territory. This was later split off from Missouri Territory and eventually admitted to the union as a state. The riverfront areas in the Arkansas Delta were developed for cotton plantations, based on the use of enslaved African Americans. Cotton was the major commodity crop before and after the Civil War. Other crops such as soybeans are also cultivate...
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2. The Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale
William Christopher Handy was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues. An African American, Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre and was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers.
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Gillett Videos

Exploring Arkansas June 2009

Richland Creek Wilderness Falls, Arkansas Post National Memorial, Wattensaw Bayou Float

In a previous episode two waterfalls were featured in the Richland Creek Wilderness area in the Ozark National Forest near Ben Hur In this segment, several more picturesque waterfalls are explored in this same area. Arkansas Post National Memorial near Gillette was not only the site of the first European settlement in the lower Mississippi Valley, but also a Civil War battleground and Arkansas'only Revolutionary War battle site. A float trip down Wattensaw Bayou near Hazen closes out the episode.

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