Henri de Tonti helped establish the first permanent European settlement in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1686. It was called the Poste aux Arkansas, or Arkansas Post ...

Henri de Tonti, called the ?father of Arkansas? for his role in establishing the first permanent European settlement, the Poste aux Arkansas (or Arkansas Post) (Arkansas County ...

Arkansas Post was founded in 1686 by Henri de Tonti at the site of a Quapaw Indian village named Osotouy near where the Arkansas River enters the Mississippi River.

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He left several men at the mouth of the Arkansas River to establish a trading post which would later become the historical town of Arkansas Post, Arkansas. During 1687 Tonti was ...

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