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Creation of the Memphis Road to Little Rock... Indian removal...

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February 03, 1824
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington D.C., February 3, 1824

* Early Midwest travel
* Memphis, Tennessee to Little Rock, Arkansas road
* Indians removal

On page 2 under an engraving of an eagle and shield is:

* An Act to authorize the surveying and making of a road from a point opposite to Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, to Little Rock, in the Territory of Arkansas...

signed in type: James Monroe. Note: This was a main travel route for the removal of the Indians in the 1830's. Nice to have in a Washington paper.

Other news of the day. 4 pages in good condition.