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• The Sultana Disaster - The Genealogy Society of Craighead County Arkansas

  • When
    Sunday, April 16, 2023
  •  
    2:00 PM
  • Location
    Craighead County Public Library, 315 W. Oak Street, Jonesboro, AR

  The Genealogy Society of Craighead County Arkansas (Jonesboro)

  
  

  Sunday, April 16, 2023
  Time: 2:00 p.m.
  Place: Round Room - Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library
  

  The featured speaker will be Ms. Melody Walker, the Director of Planning and Operations for the Sultana Disaster Museum in Marion, Arkansas. Her presentation last about one hour.
  As you may know, the sinking of the Sultana just as the Civil War was ending (April 1865) is still the worst disaster maritime disaster in US History. The museum is just across the Mississippi River from Memphis in Marion, Arkansas.

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