Napoleon
Vanished settlement · United States
- Abandoned
- 1874
- Founded
- 1830
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 33.796, -91.107
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Napoleon was badly damaged during the Civil War and then finally abandoned after most of it had washed into the Mississippi River.
History
Napoleon was a river port and the county seat of Desha County, Arkansas, from 1838 to 1874. It was located at the confluence of the Arkansas and the Mississippi rivers. Napoleon was badly damaged during the Civil War and then finally abandoned after most of it had washed into the Mississippi River.