Parkin Archeological State Park

Arkansas State Park And National Historic Landmark. A Seventeen Acre Mississippian Village Site Occupied From Roughly AD 1000 To 1550, Widely Identified With Casqui, The Town Hernando De Soto'S Expedition Described Visiting In 1541. · Parkin, Arkansas

Parkin is a seventeen-acre Mississippian village on the St Francis River, occupied for five hundred years and surrounded on three sides by a ditch its people dug. Most archaeologists identify it with Casqui, the town de Soto's expedition described in 1541 - which would make this one of the very few places in the United States where a named sixteenth-century European account can be matched to a specific excavated site. A cross the Spaniards are said to have raised may be represented by a post found in excavation. Above ground there is a mound, a ditch and a field, so the visitor centre and the ongoing research programme do most of the work. It is a National Historic Landmark and it is very quiet.

60 Highway 184 North, Parkin, Arkansas, 72373, United States

Open daytime hours most days, with reduced days in winter and closure on major holidays; the park has at times closed one or two weekdays out of season. There is a small admission charge. Active excavation and research programmes run seasonally and visitors can sometimes watch. Trails can close in wet conditions - this is low ground beside the St Francis River. Confirm hours before driving.

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