Digging for History at Old Washington

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Copyright © 2009 by The University of Arkansas Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN-10: 1-55728-898-4 ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-898-1 13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 Text design by Ellen Beeler ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kwas, Mary L. Digging for history at Old Washington / Mary L. Kwas. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-898-1 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-55728-898-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Washington (Hempstead County, Ark.)—Antiquities. 2. Excavations (Archaeology)—Arkansas—Washington (Hempstead County) 3. Historic sites—Arkansas—Washington (Hempstead County) 4. Historic buildings—Arkansas— Washington (Hempstead County) 5. Washington (Hempstead County, Ark.)—Buildings, structures, etc. 6. Washington (Hempstead County, Ark.)—Biography. I. Title. F419.W3K89 2009 976.7'54—dc22 2008036618 For my mother, Nellie Ruth Kwas, whose stories of a childhood in the Ozarks planted the seeds of affection for Arkansas’s history ...