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The Sultana museum is forecasted to attract 50,000 visitors to Marion annually. Author: Talk Business & Politics Updated: 8:27 AM CDT April 26, 2021
MARION, Ark. Had it been a battle during the Civil War, it would have ranked as one of the worst in terms of loss of life.
It turns out that when the steamship Sultana exploded on the night of April 27, 1865 in the Mississippi River near Chicken Island in Crittenden County it would become the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.
A group of civic and business leaders in the region have plotted for years to build a museum to commemorate the disaster, and a new effort to raise money for the project is about to get underway.