Columbia, Arkansas

Columbia, Arkansas was a 19th-century boat landing and human settlement along the Mississippi River located in Chicot County near Helena, Arkansas. Columbia lay in a section of the River known as the Greenville Bends,[1] between Gaines' Landing and Island 82.[2] Columbia, which lay roughly opposite Greenville, Mississippi,[3] was the county seat of Chicot from 1833 until 1855.[4] The population was 400 in 1860.[1] Cotton from nearby plantations was shipped from the river landing.[4]

"Attapakas Packet" New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 16, 1839
"Another steamboat disaster" Washington Telegraph (Washington, Ark.), February 2, 1853

USS Exchange was damaged by Confederate artillery near Columbia in June 1864.[5] The settlement was "burned in retaliation" for attacks on U.S. Navy gunboats during the American Civil War.[6] It is believed that the remains of the town site were eventually eroded into the Mississippi.[4] Nothing remains of the settlement today.[1]

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References
  1. Smith, Myron J. Jr. (2021-11-01). After Vicksburg: The Civil War on Western Waters, 1863-1865. McFarland. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-1-4766-7220-5.
  2. "John Adams [Steamboat]". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  3. Twain, Mark (2021-09-21). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Authoritative Text with Original Illustrations. University of California Press. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-520-34364-1.
  4. "Columbia (Chicot County)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  5. U.S. Naval History Division (1971). Civil War Naval Chronology 1861-1865. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  6. Bragg, Marion (1977). Historic Names and Places on the Lower Mississippi River. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Commission. p. 129.
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