Conway to accept Cadron Settlement from Corps of Engineers

The Corps of Engineers is handing over, on a 25-year, no money lease, Cadron Settlement Park to the city of Conway. The park was one of many developed by the Corps in conjunction with the McClellan-Kerr Navigation Project on the Arkansas River thirty to forty years ago. Cadron was one of the earliest trading settlements in central Arkansas, along with La Petite Roche, the French original name for Little Rock. Cadron was virtually at the geographical center of Arkansas and missed out being the capital by one vote in the territorial legislature when the decision was made to move the capital from Arkansas Post in 1820. Here's more from today's Log Cabin Democrat.