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For four decades, one of Arkansas' most important and intriguing prehistoric sites has welcomed visitors to a state park with a wildly inaccurate name. Now officials are mulling a possible change to that misguided nomenclature.
Arkansas parks officials want feedback on the name of Toltec Mounds Archaeological State Park, anticipating future efforts to rename the site after a bill to do just that died in the Arkansas Legislature last year.
A rich French Creole named Louis Bringier of New Orleans visited Arkansas in 1810-1812 and took notes. Later he published a long description of his tour, providing a primitive sort of geological survey of much of what would become Arkansas Territory in seven years.