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The Quapaw and Caddo peoples lived here for thousands of years, mining the region’s ubiquitous novaculite, a type of flint stone, for weapons.

Nature offers bizarrely dangling deadfall, glistening bits of white novaculite, fruiting wild shrubs, tweety birds, critter holes.

The memorial consists of a bronze plaque along with the iconic park ranger campaign hat mounted on a Novaculite boulder.

The finest of the novaculite rocks of central Arkansas are quarried near the city.

Novaculite, nō-vak′ū-līt, n. a hone-stone.