In the middle of this Eastern Arkansas swamp is the Louisiana Purchase Monument sitting at the point where the baseline party and the fifth principal meridian party crossed on November 10, 1815 [photo dated July 11, 1967]
Photograph of a group of people in the swamp of Monroe County, Eastern Arkansas, around the marker commemorating the Louisiana Purchase survey.
Transcript
Text accompanying the photographs reads “In the middle of this Eastern Arkansas swamp is the Louisiana Purchase monument sitting at the point established where the base line party and the fifth principal meridian party crossed on November 10, 1815.”
Questions:
What do you observe these men doing in a swamp?
How do you think Robbins and Brown were able to survey this swamp in the early 1800s?
How do you think this swamp might have changed in one hundred years?