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Harrison Arkansas & Boone County Area History

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"Bluff Dweller" Indians were the first residents of
the area. Later, the Osage, a branch of the Sioux, was the main tribe. One of their larger villages is thought to have been to the east of the present site of Harrison.
  
   
Cherokee Indians arrived around 1816 but did not get along with the Osage. This hostility erupted into a full scale Indian war in the Ozark Mountains.  By the 1830s both tribes were removed to Oklahoma.
  
Some historians contend that the first white men to visit the area were followers of Hernando De Sota. It is more probable that the first white men were French hunters or trappers.
   
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Harrison was named for Union General M. LaRue Harrison, who surveyed the town site.
  
It is also said that Jesse James and his brother Frank once used the area as a hideout.
  
Harrison's history has been one of constant
growth and improvement in civic  facilities, industrial expansion, agriculture, education and recreation.
  
Its economic base is built on manufacturing, retail, wholesale sales, agriculture, and tourism.
 
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