FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Federal, state, tribal and local officials are scheduled to attend the ground breaking ceremony for the U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith.
U.S. Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman; Rep. Steve Womack; Gov. Mike Beebe; and Principal Chief George Tiger are to join marshals services and local officials for the event on Wednesday in Fort Smith.
The groundbreaking takes place on the 225th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Marshals Service.
Fort Smith was selected as the site for the museum because of its frontier history. The museum is to be built on the banks of the Arkansas River overlooking Oklahoma where the marshals patrolled in what was then the Indian Territory that is now Oklahoma.
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