Original Fort Smith still impresses visitors

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Visitors at the Fort Smith National Historic Site can see a re-created gallows and what Judge Isaac Parker’s courtroom looked like. Yet a part of the site that sometimes draws the most intense interest is in the ground.

Fifty years ago, the foundations of the original fort were rediscovered, an event that enabled the old federal camp to attain status as a national historic site.