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Fort Smith crews have been clearing storm drains and finishing last-minute projects.Before potential severe weather and flash flooding could impact the River Valley, crews with the Fort Smith Street Department were pouring concrete and finishing up drainage work in a neighborhood on Free Ferry Road. We re building an overflow swell that diverts water around properties to prevent some flooding issues on the backside of the properties. It won t be finished prior to the rain but it ll be functioning prior to the rain and that s the important part, said Matt Meeker, director of streets and traffic control. Street sweepers have been busy clearing sand and salt from roads after last month s winter weather, It contributes to clogging up the drains, but it also affects the water quality, Meeker said. When it rains it hits the pavement and goes into the storm drains and that eventually filters out to the Arkansas River. Residents whose homes or businesses are prone to flooding may fi
Timepiece: Treasure of the Ozarks
Curtis Varnell, PhD.
Western Arkansas Educational Service Cooperative
Stories of hidden treasure abound in the mountains of Arkansas and every town has variations of tales surrounding buried Spanish, Native American and Civil War treasures. One of the more lasting tales involves the Lost Spanish Mine found in Franklin county, just north of Turner Bend.
The most popular story surrounding the lost gold involves a group of Spanish explorers traveling up the Arkansas River and north on the Mulberry River in a galleon loaded with gold taken from the Native Americans. Stranded in the area, they chose to hide the treasure underground in the soft sandstone of a bluff on the north side of the river. The site had a large marker rock on top of the bluff and numerous Native American pictographs painted on the bluff walls. Once hidden and bobby trapped, the entrance was closed in and the Spaniards and accompanying Native Americans scattering to the four win