Hampson Archeological Museum State Park is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) Arkansas state park in Mississippi County, Arkansas in the United States. The museum contains a collection of archeological artifacts from the Nodena site, which is a former Native American village on the Mississippi River between 1400 and 1650.[2][3] James K. Hampson began excavating the site in the 1920s, a museum was built in 1946 and the Arkansas General Assembly officially accepted the collection of artifacts from the Hampson family on March 30, 1957.[1] The park first opened in 1961 as Hampson Museum State Park and has since been renamed.
Around 1400-1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River. Artifacts from this site are on display in the Hampson Museum State Park.[4][5]
The museum is named after James K. Hampson, a local landowner and archaeologist.[6]
^ abcMowdy, Marlon (October 5, 2010). "Hampson Archeological Museum State Park". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. The Butler Center. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
^"Hampson Archeological Museum State Park". Arkansas State Parks Guide, 2011. Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. p. 32. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
^Nodena, Arkansas: USGS Geographic Names Information System
^"Hampson Museum State Park near Wilson Arkansas". Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved October 7, 2007. Visiomania.com, Hampson Museum
^http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/hampsonmuseum/ ArkansasStateParks.com, Hampson Museum
^Williams, Steven (April 1957). James Kelly Hampson. 1877-1956. American Antiquity, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 398-400.
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