Richland Township, officially the Township of Richland, is a

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in Jefferson County, in the

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Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...

. Its population was 279 as of the 2020 census.

History

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veteran Auguste Serville, having been wounded at Yorktown in attacking and carrying one of the enemy's

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s on the evening of October 14, 1781, was found dead in the woods near the house of Antoine Barraqué, in Richland Township, on December 30, 1828. Killed by a falling tree; Serville was buried with

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, The funeral was attended by political and military notables. The site of the grave is unknown.

References

19th-century establishments in Arkansas Arkansas populated places on the Arkansas River Populated places established in the 19th century Townships in Jefferson County, Arkansas {{JeffersonCountyAR-geo-stub