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Ackerman Island was a sandbar island located in the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita, Kansas, United States. It was located on the north side of the Douglas Street Bridge.
Jul 23, 2021 · Most visitors and even many residents who have lived their entire lives in Wichita, Kansas, are unaware that there once was an island in the middle of the Arkansas River. It was home to an all-but-forgotten amusement park that was considered Wichita’s Coney Island and was one of the city’s earliest tourist attractions.
Arbuckle Island is a small island on the Arkansas River in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States. It was named for Matthew Arbuckle Jr., a career soldier who once owned the island. [2] [3] [4] The island was granted to him as part of more than 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) that he obtained at the end of his military career. [5]
A documentary film about Wichita’s Ackerman Island is set to screen this Sunday at Harvester Arts. The island on the Arkansas River was home to Wonderland Park, an amusement park from 1905 to...
Early and mid-nineteenth century steamboats had notorious reputations for danger due to boiler explosions, snags (usually submerged logs), and sandbars. These dangers, however, did little to discourage steamboat travel and transport as the Arkansas economy depended on river transportation.
Jun 16, 2023 · Island 37 is a stretch of land that is in the legal possession of the State of Tennessee but is physically joined to Arkansas. Because competing claims of jurisdiction left it in something of a legal void, Island 37 became, in the early twentieth century, an outpost for bootleggers and other criminals.
Changing water levels reveal the Mighty Mississippi's shipwrecks.
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