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Professional Development
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Fort Smith National Historic Site can develop in-service workshops for educators at the park or at the schools.  Workshops for Arkansas History in-service credit may be requested.  Please contact the park for information on specific workshops offered, 479-783-3961.

 
Park staff and volunteers demonstrating using lindstock and slowmatch to ignite the cannon's primer  

Did You Know?
The soldiers who came to Fort Smith in 1817 were still using some 18th century technology and drill. The cannon was discharged using a lindstock and slowmatch to ignite the primer, which originally was loose powder or a turkey quill filled with powder.

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