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Robert Crittenden was elected secretary of Arkansas Territory in March 1819. Joseph Bonne, a traveler upstream from Arkansas Post that year, built a cabin at the river's southern bank on a "high hill covered with pine trees". James Scull, also of Arkansas Post, set up a tavern, and small inn, on the river's northern bank, just across from Pine Bluff. Five years later Crittenden persuaded the remaining Quapaw to sign a November 15, 1824 treaty, which relinquished what little tribal lands they had.
Steamboat travel was a key factor in expanding settlement. "Bringing to the area such men like Antoine Barraque, a French-born Napoleonic soldier, and his brothers James T. & John Pullen." The establishment of Jefferson County was approved by Territorial Governor John Pope, the successor to Crittenden. Bonne's cabin served as the county seat. "Pine Bluff Town" was established in August 1832.
Large cotton plantations were established in the county. Fronts along the river provided transportation. Plantations depended on labor from enslaved African Americans who made up a large part of the county's population well before the American Civil War. The Jefferson County planters gradually resumed cotton processing and cultivation after the war. The Delta region was highly productive and cotton was the mainstay of the economy.
