Louisiana Purchase Loan Box

Filled with objects, activities and information to immerse students in the past, the Louisiana Purchase Loan Box is suitable for an interdisciplinary study of this important period of Arkansas’s past. Try to map your site with reproduction compasses and survey chains. Learn about life, trade and health from objects and large scale illustrations. Use the CD Rom “First Encounters, Native Americans and Europeans in the Mississippi Valley” to learn more about the different cultures that inhabited the land. For more information, contact the education coordinator at (501) 324-9150.