Marion, Arkansas
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Marion is a city in and the county seat of Crittenden County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Marion had a population of 13,752. The city is part of the Memphis metropolitan area. It i
Crittenden County Courthouse
Historic marker in Marion noting that Military Road (US 64) was used for the Trail of Tears
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Southland Greyhound Park
Sultana (steamboat)
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Sultana was a commercial side-wheel steamboat which exploded and sank on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865, killing 1,164 people in what remains the worst maritime disaster in United States hist
Marion, Arkansas
…first railroad in the state of Arkansas, the Memphis & Little Rock Railroad, laid tracks 5.5 miles south of the town. During the American Civil War the steamboat Sultana was destroyed in an explosion on April 27, 1865, as it was transporting released Union POWs near Mound City, just east of Marion. It is estimated that…
Sultana at Helena, Arkansas, on April 26, 1865, the day before her destruction. A crowd of paroled prisoners covers her decks.
POW Camp Fisk, Four Mile Bridge, Vicksburg, Mississippi April 1865.
Sultana on fire, from Harper's Weekly.
An artist's impression of the fire (2015)