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NEWS ARTICLES
Lafayette County Arkansas Genealogy Trails RED RIVER FLOOD, June 11, 1828 JUDGE STEELE'S SON KILLS RECORD NUMBER OF BEARS, March 19, 1845 COTTON SOLD, September 17, 1870  We regret to learn that Red River has recently been 6 or 7
feet higher than it has been within the recollection of the oldest inhabitants
of that part of the country. A great quantity of stock has been
drowned and a large portion of the plantations in this neighborhood have been
inundated; some of them to such as extent as to destroy all prospects in making
a crop this season and the principal part of them are so injured that scarcely
half a crop will be made. The large and flourishing settlement in Long Prairie has been seriously
affected and several families have been compelled to remove out to the Pine Hills . The planters living in
Louisiana on Red river have also sustained much
damage. --Republican Compiler, Gettysburg ,
PA , August 6, 1828; transcribed by Nancy Piper.
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