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AAC Executive Director Chris Villines presents Arkansas County Judge Sonny Cox with a proc- lamation and plaque declaring Arkansas County 200 years old and the oldest county in the Natural State. Arkansas County became a county 23 years before Arkansas received its statehood.


The great seal of Arkansas County


By an Act of Congress in 1819, the territory


of Arkansas was established, and Arkansas Post became its first capital. In 1836, the territory of Arkansas became the


25th State of the Union. Te lower half of the seal is quartered by a cross denoting the impor- tance of church and religion in the development of the county. Four flags have flown over this land. In the first quarter of the seal, the flag of Napoleonic France and the Louisiana Purchase is shown with perpendicular strips of blue, white and red. Te second quarter displays the Spanish flag,


shown as a cross with red with white back- ground which flew from 1765 to 1800. In the third quarter are the red, blue and white stars and bars of the Confederacy. Te fourth quarter signifies the red, white and blue of the United States of America. Te sheaf of rice in the upper half of the seal


is surrounded by illustrations of the plow which broke the ground; the duck, deer and fish which are found in abundance and industry. Together, they complete the circle and symbolize the life- style of this great county. Te motto: “Deo Volente Prospero” is trans- lated to, “By the favor of God I shall prosper,” and so shall Arkansas County prosper. Designed by Tomas H. McCubbin, Jr. in


Volunteers deliver a Civil War era cannon to the courthouse. Civil War re-enactors also participate. COUNTY LINES, WINTER 2014


January 1980 at the request of H. Dale Shelton, Arkansas County Judge.


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