New Jersey USA state Most Famous Place
New Jersey is a northeastern U.S. state with some 130 miles of Atlantic coast. Jersey City, across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan, is the site of Liberty State Park,
New Jersey USA state Most Famous Place
New Jersey USA state Most Famous Place
New Jersey USA state Most Famous Place
"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.
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.
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