Crystal Hill - Revision history

Phil at 19:15, 12 June 2009

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Phil at 19:14, 12 June 2009

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Phil: New page: '''Crystal Hill''' is a prominent land feature in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The hill is near the intersection of Interstate 40 and Interstate 430 about twelve miles northwest o...

2009-06-12T18:47:55Z

New page: '''Crystal Hill''' is a prominent land feature in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The hill is near the intersection of Interstate 40 and Interstate 430 about twelve miles northwest o...

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'''Crystal Hill''' is a prominent land feature in [[Pulaski County]], Arkansas. The hill is near the intersection of [[Interstate 40]] and [[Interstate 430]] about twelve miles northwest of downtown [[Little Rock]]. It is thought that some of the early Native American quartz tools found at [[Toltec Mounds]] were manufactured from rock found at Crystal Hill.

Crystal Hill was the site of perhaps the first permanent settlement in the county, [[Pyeattstown]] was founded here by brothers [[James Pyeatt]] and [[Jacob Pyeatt]] in 1807.

Territorial Governor [[James Miller]] bought land at the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included [[William Lockwood]], [[Jonathan Pharr]], the Reverend [[John Carnahan]], [[Edmund Hogan]], and the French speculator [[Brangiere]] who thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site.

==References==

*Dallas Tabor Herndon, ''Centennial History of Arkansas'' (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), 164, 797.
*George H. Odell, ''Stone Tools: Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory'' (Springer, 1996), 192, 196-202.

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 Crystal Hill was the site of perhaps the first permanent settlement in the county, [[Pyeattstown]] was founded here by brothers [[James Pyeatt]] and [[Jacob Pyeatt]] in 1807.
-Territorial Governor [[James Miller]] bought land at the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included [[William Lockwood]], [[Jonathan Pharr]], the Reverend [[John Carnahan]], [[Edmund Hogan]], and the French speculator [[Louis Brangiere]] who mistakenly thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site. When [[John Trammel]] found Brangiere's mine in 1815 he took samples to Arkansas Post where [[Francis Notrebe]] determined that the crystals contained gold flakes.
+Territorial Governor [[James Miller]] bought land at the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included [[William Lockwood]], [[Jonathan Pharr]], the Reverend [[John Carnahan]], [[Edmund Hogan]], and the French speculator [[Louis Brangiere]] who mistakenly thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site. When [[John Trammel]] found Brangiere's mine in 1815 he took samples to Arkansas Post where [[Francis Notrebe]] determined that the crystals contained gold flakes. It was later determined that he was mistaken in this view.
 ==References==

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 Crystal Hill was the site of perhaps the first permanent settlement in the county, [[Pyeattstown]] was founded here by brothers [[James Pyeatt]] and [[Jacob Pyeatt]] in 1807.
-Territorial Governor [[James Miller]] bought land at the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included [[William Lockwood]], [[Jonathan Pharr]], the Reverend [[John Carnahan]], [[Edmund Hogan]], and the French speculator [[Brangiere]] who thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site.
+Territorial Governor [[James Miller]] bought land at the settlement and in 1820 made a failed attempt to name it the Arkansas state capitol. Other early settlers at Pyeattstown included [[William Lockwood]], [[Jonathan Pharr]], the Reverend [[John Carnahan]], [[Edmund Hogan]], and the French speculator [[Louis Brangiere]] who mistakenly thought he had found silver embedded in the crystals that could be found at the site. When [[John Trammel]] found Brangiere's mine in 1815 he took samples to Arkansas Post where [[Francis Notrebe]] determined that the crystals contained gold flakes.
 ==References==
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 *Dallas Tabor Herndon, ''Centennial History of Arkansas'' (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1922), 164, 797.
 *George H. Odell, ''Stone Tools: Theoretical Insights into Human Prehistory'' (Springer, 1996), 192, 196-202.
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