Fort Smith National Historic Site

Fort Smith National Historic Site

Infobox_protected_area | name = Fort Smith National Historic Site
iucn_category =


caption = Commissary Building in 1940
location = Sebastian County, Arkansas & Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA
nearest_city = Fort Smith, Arkansas
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 20
lat_seconds = 36
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 94
long_minutes = 25
long_seconds = 22
long_direction = W
area = 75 acres (0.3 km²)
established = September 13, 1961
visitation_num = 74,400
visitation_year = 2005
governing_body = National Park ServiceInfobox_nrhp2 | name =Fort Smith
nhld=yes
nhs = yes


caption =
location= Fort Smith, Arkansas
locmapin = Arkansas
area =
designated_nhl= December 19, 1960cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=109&ResourceType=District
title=Fort Smith|date=2007-09-26|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = October 15, 1966cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
refnum=66000202

Fort Smith National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Oklahoma along the Arkansas River. The site was established in 1961 in order to protect the remains of two nineteenth-century U.S. military forts and the Federal Court for the Western District of Arkansas. Fort Smith was also notable as a major stop along the "Trail of Tears." It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000202.pdf National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings: Fort Smith (First and Second Sites) and Judge Parker Courtroom] |202 KiB |author=Frank B. Sarls, Jr.|date=December 10, 1958|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000202.pdf Accompanying 4 photos, exterior, from 1940 and undated.] |620 KiB ]

The park visitor center is now located in the old Barracks/Courthouse/Jail building. Exhibits in the visitor center focus on Fort Smith’s military history from 1817 – 1871, western expansion, Judge Isaac Parker and the federal court's impact on Indian Territory, U.S. Deputy Marshals and outlaws, Federal Indian policy, and Indian Removal including the Trail of Tears.

Located on the grounds are the foundation remains of the first Fort Smith (1817-1824), the commissary building (c. 1838) and a reconstruction of the gallows used by the federal court. A walking trail along the Arkansas River includes wayside exhibits on the Trail of Tears.

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