Where could I get some of his historical pamphlets? I have to work tomorrow. If you can and would pick up any pamphlets on this subject, I'd reimburse you for them plus postage. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: WRidge <wridge@hnb.com> To: <ARLEE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 12:58 PM Subject: [ARLEE] Subject of Tri-County Genealogy Meeting Sunday, Aug. 12 > The purchase from France of an immense domain of territory lying immediately west of the Mississippi River and which became known as the Louisiana Purchase is recorded in every history book. Negotiations leading up to this great purchase and the details incident to it are known by every history student. However, few people realize the extreme importance a little known spot in Eastern Arkansas has in connection with this purchase. > > At the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips Counties stands a monument marking the initial point where engineers representing the United States began the survey November 10, 1815 to determine the boundaries of the territory embraced in the Louisiana Purchase. The events that determined this initial point, and the resulting surveys will be the subject of a program at the Tri-County Genealogy Society Sunday. > > The program will be presented by Bobby Turner when the Genealogical Society meets this next Sunday, August 12. The Society will meet in the genealogy library in Marvell at 2 p.m. All members, past and present, are urged to attend. Visitors are welcome. > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >