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Nov242014November 24, 2014November 24, 2014by itswebteam

Holiday Hours 2014-2015

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Thanksgiving Holiday
•November 26, 2014 — Limited Hours (staff onsite only at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. for tour)
•November 27 – November 30, 2014 — Closed
•Reopening, Monday, December 1, 2014

Christmas & New Year’s Day Holidays
•December 22, 2014-January 4, 2015 — Closed
•Reopening, Monday, January 5, 2015


Sep122014September 12, 2014February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies · UAM’s Historic Properties and Tourism in Southeast Arkansas

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Lakeport Legacies: 

UAM’s Historic Properties and Tourism in Southeast Arkansas

presented by

Dr. John Kyle Day (University of Arkansas at Monticello)

 
Thursday, September 25, 2014
 
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Law office of Gov. X. O. Pindall at Arkansas City and the Taylor House near Winchester are two historic properties recently acquired by UAM
The University of Arkansas at Monticello is engaged in plans to create a Southeast Arkansas Heritage Trail anchored by its three historic properties: WW II Italian POW Camp near Monticello (Drew County), the law office of Arkansas Governor Xenophon Overton Pindall in Arkansas City (Desha County), and the ca. 1846 Taylor House at the Hollywood Plantation near Winchester (Drew County). Dr. John Kyle Day, associate professor of history, will discuss the university’s plans to save, preserve, and interpret these important historic sites for students and the public.
Please RSVP to this Free Event
870.265.6031
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

Aug112014August 11, 2014February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies · Slave Life in Chicot County: Toil and Resistance on the River

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Lakeport Legacies:
Slave Life in Chicot County: Toil and Resistance on the River 
presented by
Kelly Jones (University of Arkansas)
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm
Program @ 6:00 pm
Wealthy planters, like Chicot County’s Elisha Worthington, benefited from the work of the slaves they owned. Worthington, the largest slaveholder in Arkansas, owned 543 slaves and four plantations, including the Sunnyside Plantation. Photo courtesy of Annie Paden.
In the antebellum period Chicot County’s economy was dominated by slavery and cotton. The labor of slaves, who cleared vast forests and cultivated cotton, helped make Chicot County one of the wealthiest places in the Unites States. Slave life in the peculiar institution was complex; while not free, slaves developed their own culture, married, worshiped and, at times, sought the freedoms they were denied.  Kelly Jones, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arkansas, will explore the world of slaves and slavery in Chicot County through court records, the census, newspapers and WPA narratives.
Please RSVP to this Free Event
870.265.6031

 
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

Jul082014July 8, 2014February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies Images of Chicot County: A Book Project

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Lakeport Legacies:

Images of Chicot County: A Book Project

 
presented by
 
Blake Wintory, Lakeport Plantation 
and 
LaRhonda Mangrum 

Thursday, July 31, 2014 

Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm

 Program @ 6:00 pm

Swimmers enjoying Lake Chicot, 1918. Photo Courtesy of William Alexander Percy Library, Greenville, MS.
 
Lakeport Plantation is starting work on a pictorial history of Chicot County with Arcadia Publishing, known for its iconic Images in America series. Chicot County has a long history rooted in agriculture, business and the communities that sprung up along the Mississippi River, grand oxbow lakes and railroads. Come see and remember the history of Chicot County through the images we are discovering. You can also help the project. We are seeking pictures of community events, businesses, historic structures, and people. Send an email or call if you have something.
 
All are welcome to this Free Event
870.265.6031
 
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

Jun112014June 11, 2014February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies Bowie Knives: The Chicot County Connection

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Lakeport Legacies:

Bowie Knives: The Chicot County Connection

presented by
 
Bill Worthen, Director of Historic Arkansas Museum 

Thursday, June 19, 2014 

Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm

 Program @ 6:00 pm

 
 
Bowie Knives on display at Historic Arkansas Museum
Bill Worthen, director of the Historic Arkansas Museum and Life member of the Antique Bowie Knife Association, will discuss the Bowie Knife’s connection to Chicot County. Rezin and John Bowie, brothers of the famous James Bowie, came to Chicot County in the late 1820s. Evolving from simpler hunting knives, the decorative bowie knife popularized by their brother James, became a favorite weapon of gentlemen and outlaws in the antebellum South. While James’s original knife was lost at the Alamo in 1836, several of Rezin Bowie‘s knives survive in both public and private collections.  

Please RSVP to this Free Event
870.265.6031
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

May122014May 12, 2014November 19, 2014by itswebteam

Summer Hours 2014 — Saturday Hours added

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In addition to Lakeport’s regular weekday tours, Lakeport will add Saturday hours (11 am – 3 pm) from May 24 until July 26.

Summer Hours 2014
May 24 – July 26
Mon-Friday Tours at 10 am & 2 pm 
Saturdays Open to visitors 11 am – 3 pm
Closed Sundays

Closed Memorial Day, Monday, May 26
Closed Independence Day, Friday July 4










May052014May 5, 2014February 27, 2019by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies — Clinton Bagley — Truths & Reinterpreting the Past

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Lakeport Legacies:

Truths & Reinterpreting the Past: Examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley

presented by
 
Clinton Bagley, Mississippi Department of Archives & History

Thursday, May 29, 2014 

Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm

 Program @ 6:00 pm

 Using Mount Holly, Washington County, MS (left) and Stanton Hall, Natchez, MS (right) as examples, historian Clinton Bagley will explore the architecture and history of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Images courtesy of Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress; and Historic Resource Inventory Database, MDAH.
 
 
Historian and Greenville native, Clinton Bagley, will explore the architecture and history of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Using Mount Holly on Lake Washington and Stanton Hall in Natchez as his primary examples, Bagley will slay popular myths and show how historic records, genealogy and oral histories can bring a historic house to life. 

Please RSVP to this Free Event
870.265.6031
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

Apr072014April 7, 2014January 9, 2018by itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies — Drennen Dale

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Lakeport Legacies:

Drennen Dale: John Drennen’s Unfinished Legacy in Chicot County

presented by
 
Tom Wing, Drennen-Scott Historic Site; University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

Thursday, April 24, 2014 (helps to have the right date)

Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm

 Program @ 6:00 pm

 
Portrait of John Drennen (1801-1855)
 
John Drennen, a merchant and politician who co-founded Van Buren (Crawford County) in 1836, was also a prominent planter in Chicot County. Tom Wing, Director of the Drennen-Scott Historical Site, will discuss Drennen’s unfinished legacy in Chicot County. Drennen and his estate owned the Deerfield Plantation, later renamed Drennen Dale. In some historical accounts, part of Drennen Dale was donated to Chicot County to form a new county seat at Lake Village. The Drennen-Scott House in Van Buren was continually occupied by descendants of John Drennen from 1836 until it became part of the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith in 2004. The restored house is an integral part of UAFS’s Historical Interpretation Program.

All are welcome to this Free Event.
 
Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

Mar052014March 5, 2014November 22, 20161Commentby itswebteam

Lakeport Legacies–Remembering Camp Monticello

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Lakeport Legacies:

Remembering Camp Monticello: Archaeology of Arkansas’s World War II Home Front Heritage

presented by

Dr. Jodi A. Barnes, Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas at Monticello

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Refreshments & Conversation @ 5:30 pm

 Program @ 6:00 pm

Camp Monticello, the Italian Prisoner of War (PoW) camp located in Monticello, is a significant part of Arkansas’s World War II Home Front heritage. It opened as a training facility for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1943 and served as a PoW camp for Italians from 1943 to 1946. Dr. Barnes will discuss recent excavations at the site and the role of historical and oral records archeology.


All are welcome to this Free Event.

Lakeport Legacies (LL) meets in the Dining Room of the Lakeport Plantation house. LL, held on one of the last Thursdays of the month at the Lakeport Plantation, features a history topic from the Delta. For more information, call 870.265.6031.

This is an official event for Arkansas Archeology Month.


Feb072014February 7, 2014November 22, 2016by itswebteam

2014 Lakeport Legacies Schedule

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2014 Lakeport Legacies Schedule

Lakeport Legacies is a monthly history talk held on one of the last Thursdays in the spring and summer months. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and conversation at 5:30 pm · Program at 6:00 pm 

March 20 · Remembering Camp Monticello: Archaeology of Arkansas’s World War II Home Front Heritage · Dr. Jodi Barnes (University of Arkansas, Monticello · Arkansas Archeological Survey) 


April 24 · Drennen Dale: John Drennen’s Unfinished Legacy in Chicot County · Tom Wing (Drennen-Scott Historic Site · University of Arkansas, Fort Smith)


May 29 · Truths & Reinterpreting the Past: Examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley · Clinton Bagley (Mississippi Department of Archives & History)


June 19 · Bowie Knives: The Chicot County Connection · Bill Worthen (Historic Arkansas Museum, Director)


July 31 · Images of Chicot County: A Book Project · Dr. Blake Wintory (Lakeport Plantation) & LaRhonda Mangrum (Arkansas Gravestones Project)


August 28 · Slave Life in Chicot County: Toil and Resistance on the River · Kelly Jones (University of Arkansas)


September 25 · UAM’s Historic Properties and Tourism in Southeast Arkansas · Dr. John Kyle Day (University of Arkansas, Monticello)


Lakeport Legacies meets at Lakeport Plantation — 601 Hwy 142, Lake Village, Arkansas. 
Call 870.265.6031 or visit https://lakeport.astate.edu for more information.
The Lakeport Plantation is an Arkansas State University Heritage Site.