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Arkansas Highway 22

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Highway 22 marker

Highway 22

Route information
Maintained by ArDOT
Length75.60 mi[1] (121.67 km)
Existed1926–present
Major junctions
West end US 64 / US 71B in Fort Smith
Major intersections I-540 / US 71 in Fort Smith
AR 549 / Future I-49 in Barling
AR 23 in Caulksville
East end AR 7 in Dardanelle
Location
CountryUnited States
StateArkansas
CountiesSebastian, Franklin, Logan, Yell
Highway system
AR 21 AR 23

Highway 22 (AR 22, Ark. 22, and Hwy. 22) is an east–west state highway in the Arkansas River Valley. It is maintained by the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD). The highway runs 75.60 miles (121.67 km) from US 64/US 71B east to Highway 7 in Dardanelle. Following the historic stagecoach line of the cross-country Butterfield Trail, the highway is one of the original 1926 state highways. It is designated by the AHTD as the True Grit Trail.

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Hi there, I’m John Green, you’re watching Crash Course: World History, and today we’re gonna talk about the Silk Road, so called because it was not a road and not made of silk. So this is a t-shirt. It was designed in Belgium and contains cotton from both Brazil and the Texas, which was turned into cloth in China, stitched in Haiti, screen-printed in the Washington, sold to me in Indiana, and now that I am too fat to wear it, it will soon make its way to Cameroon or Honduras or possibly even back to Haiti. Can we just pause for a moment to consider the astonishing fact that most t-shirts see more of the World than most of us do— Mr. Green Mr. Green the t-shirt can’t see the world because they don’t have eyes— Look, me from the past, it’s difficult for me to isolate what I hate most about you because there is so much to hate. But very near the top is your relentless talent for ignoring everything that is interesting and beautiful about our species in favor of pedantic sniveling in which no one loses or gains anything of value. I’m gonna go put on a collared shirt because we’re here to tackle the big picture. [music intro] [music intro] [music intro] [music intro] [music intro] [music intro] So the silk road didn’t begin trade, but it did radically expand its scope, and the connections that were formed by mostly unknown merchants arguably changed the world more than any political or religious leaders. It was especially cool If you were rich, because you finally had something to spend your money on other than temples. But even if you weren’t rich, the Silk Road reshaped the lives of everyone living in Africa and Eurasia, as we will see today. Let’s go straight to the Thought Bubble. As previously mentioned, the silk road was not a road. It’s not like archaeologists working in Uzbekistan have uncovered a bunch of yield signs and baby on board stickers. It was an overland route where merchants carried goods for trade. But it was really two routes: One that connected the Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia and one that went from Central Asia to China. Further complicating things, the Silk Road involved sea routes: Many goods reached Rome via the Mediterranean, and goods from Central Asia found their way across the Pacific to Japan and even Java. So we shouldn’t think of the Silk Road as a road but rather as a network of trade routes. But just as now, the goods traveled more than the people who traded them: Very few traders traversed the entire silk road: Instead, they’d move back and forth between towns, selling to traders who’d take the goods further toward their destination, with everybody marking up prices along the way. So what’d they trade? Well silk, for starters. For millennia, silk was only produced in China. It is spun from the cocoons of mulberry tree-eating worms and the process of silk making as well as the techniques for raising the worms were closely guarded secrets, since the lion’s share of China’s wealth came from silk production. The Chinese used silk as fishing line, to buy off nomadic raiders to keep things peaceful, and to write before they invented paper. But as an export, silk was mostly used for clothes: Silk clothing feels light in the summer and warm in the winter, and until we invented $700 pre-distressed designer jeans, decking yourself out in silk was the #1 way to show people that you were wealthy. Thanks, Thought Bubble. But the silk road wasn’t all about silk. The Mediterranean exported such cliched goods as olives, olive oil, wine, and mustachioed plumbers. China exported raw materials like jade, silver, and iron. India exported fine cotton textiles; the ivory that originated in East Africa made its way across the Silk Road; And Arabia exported incense and spices and tortoise shells. Oh, god, it’s a red one, isn’t it? It’s just gonna chase me, I just--- Ow. Up until now on Crash Course we’ve been focused on city-dwelling civilizational types, but with the growth of the silk road, the nomadic people of Central Asia suddenly become much more important to world history. Much of Central Asia isn’t great for agriculture, but it’s difficult to conquer, unless you are, wait for it- The Mongols. It also lends itself fairly well to herding, and since nomads are definitionally good at moving around, they’re also good at moving stuff from Point A to Point B, which makes them good traders. Plus all their travel made them more resistant to diseases. One group of such nomads, the Yuezhi, were humiliated in battle in the 2nd century BCE by their bitter rivals the Xiongnu, who turned the Yuezhi king’s skull into a drinking cup, in fact. And in the wake of that the Yuezhi migrated to Bactria and started the Kushan Empire in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although silk road trading began more than a century before the birth of Jesus, it really took off in the second and third centuries CE, and the Kushan Empire became a huge hub for that silk road trade. By then, nomads were being eclipsed by professional merchants who travelled the silk roads, often making huge profits, but those cities that had been founded by nomadic peoples became hugely important. They continued to grow, because most of the trade on the Silk Road was by caravan, and those caravans had to stop frequently, you know, for like food and water and prostitutes. These towns became fantastically wealthy: One, Palmyra, was particularly important because all of the incense and silk that travelled to Rome had to go through Palmyra. Silk was so popular among the Roman elite that the Roman senate repeatedly tried to ban it, complaining about trade imbalances caused by the silk trade and also that silk was inadequately modest. To quote Seneca the Younger, “I see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes,” he also said of the woman who wears silk, “her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body." And yet all attempts to ban silk failed, which speaks to how much, even in the ancient world, wealth shaped governance. And with trade, there was a way to become wealthy without being a king or lord who takes part of what your citizens produce. The merchant class that grew along with the Silk Road came to have a lot of political clout, and in some ways that began the tension that we still see today between wealth and politics. Whether it’s, you know, corporations making large donations or Vladimir Putin periodically jailing billionaires. Mr. Putin, I just want to state for the record that I did not mean that in any way, I was--- Stan wrote that joke. Oh, it’s time for the Open Letter. An Open Letter to Billionaires: But first, let’s see what’s in the Secret Compartment today. Oh, it’s some fake silk; the stuff that put real silk out of business. Dear Billionaires, I’ve wrapped myself in the finest of polyester so that you will take my message seriously. Here at Crash Course we’ve done a lot of research into our demographics and our show is watched primarily by Grammar Nazis, Muggle Quidditch Players, People Who Have a Test Tomorrow, and Billionaires. I have a message for you Billionaires: It will never be enough. You’re relentless yearning is going to kill us all. Best wishes, John Green Speaking of billionaires, the goods that travelled on the Silk Road really only changed the lives of rich people. Did the Silk Road affect the rest of us? Yes, for three reasons.Second, the Silk Road didn’t just trade luxury goods. In fact, arguably the most important thing traded along the Silk Road: ideas. First, wider economic impact. Relatively few people could afford silk, but a lot of people devoted their lives to making that silk. And as the market for silk grew, more and more people chose to go into silk production rather than doing something else with their lives. Second, the Silk Road didn’t just trade luxury goods. In fact, arguably the most important thing traded along the Silk Road: ideas. For example, the Silk Road was the primary route for the spread of Buddhism.When we last saw the Buddha’s Eight-Fold Path to escaping the cycle of suffering and desire that's inherent to humans, it was beginning to dwindle in India. But through contacts with other cultures and traditions, Buddhism grew and flourished and became one of the great religious traditions of the world. The variation of Buddhism that took root in China, Korea, Japan, and Central Asia is known as Mahayana Buddhism, and it differed from the original teachings of the Buddha in many ways, but one that was fundamental. For Mahayana Buddhists, the Buddha was divine. (I mean, we can—and religious historians do—fight over the exact definition of divine, but in Mahayanna Buddhism, there’s no question that the Buddha is venerated to a greater degree. The idea of Nirvana also transformed from a release from that cycle of suffering and desire to something much more heavenly and frankly more fun, and in some versions of Mahayana Buddhism, there are lots of different heavens, each more awesome than the last. Rather than focusing on the fundamental fact of suffering, Mahayana Buddhism offered the hope that through worship of the Buddha, or one of the many bodhisattvas – holy people who could have achieved nirvana but chose to hang out on Earth with us because they’re super nice– one could attain a good afterlife. Many merchants on the silk road became strong supporters of monasteries which in turn became convenient weigh stations for caravans. And by endowing the monasteries, rich merchants were buying a form of supernatural insurance; Monks who lived in the monasteries would pray for the success of trade missions and the health of their patrons. It was win-win, especially when you consider that one of the central materials used in Mahayana Buddhist rituals is … silk. And a third reason the silk road changed all our lives, worldwide interconnectedness of populations led to the spread of disease. Measles and Smallpox traveled along it, as did bubonic plague, which came from the East to the West in 534, 750, and—most devastatingly—in 1346. This last plague—known as the Black Death—resulted in the largest population decimation in human history, with nearly half of Europeans dying in a four-year period. A sizable majority of people living in Italy died as did two-thirds of Londoners. And it quite possibly wouldn’t have happened without the Silk Road. If you were living in London during the fourteenth century, you probably didn’t blame the Silk Road for your community’s devastation, but it played a role. If you look at it that way, the interconnectedness fostered by Silk Road affected way, way more people than just those rich enough to buy silk, just as today’s globalization offers both promise and threat to each of us. Next week we’ll talk about Julius Caesar and in what situation, if any, it’s okay to stab your friend in the gut. Until then, thanks for watching. Crash Course is produced and directed by Stan Muller, our script supervisor is Danica Johnson. Our graphics team is Thought Bubble and the show is written by my high school history teacher Raoul Meyer and myself. Last week's Phrase of the Week was "Kim Kardashian". If you didn't like it, SUGGEST BETTER PHRASES OF THE WEEK IN COMMENTS. Every week I take one of your suggestions and find a way to squeeze it into the new episode. If you liked today's episode of Crash Course, please click the "like" button and consider sharing the show with your friends. You can also follow us on Twitter @THECRASHCOURSE or on Facebook, links below. Raoul also has a Twitter where he tweets Crash Course pop quizzes. As do I. All of those links can be found below. Also, the beloved and not fictitious, Stan, has agreed to start tweeting. So that's exciting! Thanks for watching, and as we say in my hometown, don’t forget to be awesome. [scoots out of frame] [scoots out of frame] Oh, hey. Remember that Mongols shirt from the beginning of the episode? In addition to being a joke, it's a shirt! So many of you requested Mongols shirts that WE ARE GIVING THEM TO YOU! [ available for purchase, rather] They are now available for pre-order at DFTBA.com, link in the video info below, so you can show your love for Crash Course or Mongols or exceptions.

Route description

The route begins in Fort Smith at US 64/US 71B. It runs east, crossing I-540/US 71 and the incomplete interchange at the northern end of future I-49.[2] From its western terminus in Fort Smith it carries the Seminole route of the Trail of Tears to AR 255 where the historic route follows AR 255 heading north.[3] From the junction with AR 255, AR 22 concurs with AR 255 through Fort Chaffee and intersects AR 96 east of the installation. The route next enters Charleston where it meets AR 217 and the historic Butterfield Trail. The historic route continues along AR 22 to its eastern terminus in Dardanelle.[4] Continuing east into Branch the highway crosses AR 41.[5] County Line High School is located on the highway between Branch and Ratcliff.[6]

Highway 22 east of Barling

In the town of Caulksville AR 22 has a junction with AR 23. Continuing east into the city of Paris the highway has junctions with AR 109, AR 288, and AR 309. AR 22/AR 109/AR 288 run together until Subiaco, when the route loses AR 288 but crosses AR 197.[7] AR 109 leaves AR 22 in Midway, heading north towards Clarksville. AR 22 continues alone to Dardanelle, passing through the communities of New Blaine and Delaware along the way.[8] In Dardanelle, the route terminates at AR 7 after a very brief concurrency with AR 155.[9]

The road itself is fairly straight and in reasonably good repair. Passing can be safely accomplished in several stretches of Highway 22 despite a lack of constructed passing areas.[citation needed]

History

Former alignments of Highway 22
Barling segment
New Blaine segment
Dardanelle segment

The precursor to today's AR 22 was the Butterfield Trail, a stagecoach trail officially known as the Overland Mail Company that traveled roughly along the present-day highway's route from Dardanelle to Fort Smith. The stagecoach carried mail and passengers from Memphis to Fort Smith. In Fort Smith the trail split into two routes, with one traveling west to San Francisco and the other traveling north to St. Louis. The Butterfield Trail was in operation from 1858 to 1861.[4]

Upon its establishment, AR 22 was one of the original 1926 Arkansas state highways. AR 22 ran from Fort Smith to Dardanelle along a routing very similar to the modern-day routing of AR 22.[10] On July 14, 2015 the highway was linked to Future I-49 in Barling.[11] In June 2019 a proposal was made under the Connecting Arkansas Program-2 for US$25 million to be allocated to the improvement of sections of AR 22 between Fort Smith and Charleston.[12] On March 20[13] of the same year, the highway was officially designated by the AHTD as the True Grit Trail. The name comes from the 1968 novel, True Grit by Charles Portis. Frank Ross, father of the protagonist Mattie Ross, travels along Highway 22 from Dardanelle to Fort Smith.[14]

National Register of Historic Places

Three original segments of Highway 22 remain intact and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The New Blaine segment was listed in 2003,[15] the Barling segment was listed in May 2007,[16] and the Yell County segment was listed in 2008.[17] All three listings are contained within the Arkansas Highway History and Architecture Multiple Property Submission, which preserves history from Arkansas's highway building era between 1910 and 1965.[18]

Barling

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The Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment is a historic section of roadway in Barling, Arkansas. Now named Mayo Drive, it consists of a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) stretch of concrete pavement, two lanes wide, in the northwestern part of the city. It extends north from the current alignment of Highway 22 until it reaches a sharp curve, where the pavement narrows significantly, before continuing westward to rejoin the highway. This stretch of pavement was constructed in 1928 by the Koss Construction Company, and is longest section of surviving pavement of the early alignment of Highway 22.[19]

New Blaine

Old Arkansas Highway 22 is a historic roadway section in New Blaine, Arkansas. It consists of an S-shaped section asphalt, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in length, built in 1930 by Cook & Ransom and the Schultz Construction Company to carry Highway 22. This section was bypassed by the present alignment in the 1960s. It is now designated as part of Arkansas Highway 197, the AR 197 Loop, and Rainbow Loop, and continues to provide the primary access to the town center.[20]

Yell County

One surviving element of the original alignment survives in Yell County west of Dardanelle; it consists of County Road 906 (CR 906), a 0.25-mile (0.40 km) stretch of concrete pavement 18 feet (5.5 m) wide. This segment was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[21]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmi[22]kmDestinationsNotes
SebastianFort Smith0.000.00 US 64 / US 71B (Garrison Avenue / Towson Avenue / North 11th Street) – National Historic Site, National Cemetery
3.675.91


I-540 to I-49 / I-40 / US 71 – Van Buren
I-540/I-49 exit 8
Barling7.0711.38
AR 253 south
8.0712.99
AR 255 north
8.3813.49
AR 59 north – Van Buren, Trimble Lock & Dam, Springhill Park
8.6513.92

AR 549 / Future I-49 south to US 71
Opened to traffic and signed as AR 549, northbound segment into Crawford County unbuilt; future I-49 exit 193
Central City11.0017.70
AR 255 south – Vache Grasse Park
Diamond Grove14.0422.60 AR 96 – Lavaca, Greenwood
16.3326.28
AR 255 north – Lavaca
20.2032.51
AR 252 west
FranklinCharleston23.5837.95
AR 217 north (Greenwood Street) – Vesta
24.3339.16
AR 217 south (South Rattlesnake Road)
Branch29.21–
29.81
47.01–
47.97
AR 41 – Chismville, CecilOfficially designated exception
LoganRatcliff32.6152.48
AR 398 west
Caulksville33.8154.41 AR 23 – Ozark, Booneville
Paris39.6963.87
AR 369 south (South Charcoal Plant Road)
41.4066.63
AR 109 south / AR 309 (Elm Street) – Mount Magazine State Park
Western end of AR 109 concurrency
Subiaco46.7975.30
AR 197 north – Scranton
Midway52.9985.28
AR 109 north – Clarksville, Cane Creek Recreation Area, Dublin Recreation Area
Eastern end of AR 109 concurrency
New Blaine59.6996.06
AR 197 north – Shoal Bay Recreation Area
Delaware66.00106.22
AR 393 north – Delaware Recreation Area
YellDardanelle75.29121.17
AR 155 west – Mount Nebo State Park
75.60121.67

AR 7 to AR 27 south – Ola, Danville, Russellville
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ^ System Information and Research Division (2014). "Arkansas Road Log Database". Little Rock: Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (MDB) on August 29, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Aric Mitchell (April 26, 2018). "ArDOT 'dusts off' $600 million future I-49 Barling to Alma stretch". Talk Business & Politics. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. ^ "Arkansas Trail of Tears". Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Butterfield Trail". Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  5. ^ "AHTD Sebastian County map" (PDF). Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 13, 2021. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
  6. ^ "AHSAA School Directory - County Line High School". Arkansas Activities Association. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  7. ^ "AHTD Franklin County map" (PDF). Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
  8. ^ "AHTD Logan County map" (PDF). Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 22, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
  9. ^ "AHTD Yell County map" (PDF). Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
  10. ^ "Map of State of Arkansas Showing System of State Highways". Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department. 1926. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  11. ^ Marney, Meridith (July 14, 2015). "Leaders Dedicate Highway 549 At Chaffee Crossing". KFSM-TV. KFSM-TV. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  12. ^ John Lovett (June 18, 2019). "I-49, Greenwood, Charleston road projects make CAP-2 list". Southwest Times Record. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  13. ^ Lovett, John (April 1, 2019). "Monday Matters: Highway 22 designated True Grit Trail". Southwest Times Record. Archived from the original on July 10, 2021. Retrieved September 1, 2023 – via Wayback Machine.
  14. ^ "Arkansas DOT Officially Establishes 'True Grit Trail'". AASHTO Journal. American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. November 22, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  15. ^ "National Register Information System – Old Arkansas Highway 22 (#03000950)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  16. ^ "National Register Information System – Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment (#07000439)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  17. ^ "National Register Information System – Old Arkansas 22-Dardanelle Segment (#07001438)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  18. ^ "National Register Information System – Arkansas Highway History and Architecture Multiple Property Submission (#64500014)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  19. ^ "NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas 22, Barling Segment" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved April 25, 2015.[permanent dead link]
  20. ^ "NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas Highway 22" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
  21. ^ "NRHP nomination for Old Arkansas 22-Dardanelle Segment" (PDF). Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
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