Territory

Bowie Countryside Territory

Territory Period

buildings restored by the Historic Arkansas Museum

 

the Grog House
(often referred to as the Territorial Capitol)

Arkansas Territory was a historic, organized territory of the United States from July 4, 1819 to June 15, 1836, when it was admitted as Arkansas, the 25th U.S. state.

 

Grog House meeting room

 

the bar

Arkansas Territory was separated from Missouri Territory and included most of what is now Oklahoma, excepting the Oklahoma Panhandle. It was reduced twice before settling, in 1828, into the present boundaries of Arkansas.

 

map of the Arkansas Territory

 

notes left by the visitors

 

Kansas alligator

 

work table

Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819-1821), Little Rock was the second (1821-1836).

 

 

the dining table

 

bed room in the Inn

 

travel trunk

 

rocker

There were five Governors of the Arkansas Territory from 1819 to 1836; the Governors were James Miller from 1819 to 1824, George Izard from 1824 to 1828, John Pope from 1829 to 1835 and William S. Fulton from 1835 to 1836.

 

the kitchen

 

showing the oven

 

game serving tray

 

the well

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kitchen building

 

Herb Garden

 

 

McVicar House

 

 

parlor

 

bed room

 

the travel trunk

 

saddle

 

serving table

 

 

 

McVicar House

 

table in the kitchen

 

where the maid slept

 

in the kitchen building


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