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Circa-1870 pocket watch used by U.S. Marshal John E. Sherman of the New Mexico Territory. Sold at auction for $1,000 on May 17, 2007. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Engel Auction Co.

Update planned for US marshals museum in Arkansas

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Circa-1870 pocket watch used by U.S. Marshal John E. Sherman of the New Mexico Territory. Sold at auction for $1,000 on May 17, 2007. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Engel Auction Co.
Circa-1870 pocket watch used by U.S. Marshal John E. Sherman of the New Mexico Territory. Sold at auction for $1,000 on May 17, 2007. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Engel Auction Co.

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – Officials with a planned U.S. Marshals Museum in downtown Fort Smith are planning a meeting to update the public about the project’s progress.

The museum’s operations director, Jessica Hayes, tells the Southwest Times Record that the Dec. 14 meeting will include discussion about what’s been done during the past year and plans for the upcoming year for the $50 million project. Hayes will be joined by the museum’s executive director, Jim Dunn and its fundraising consultant, Jim Johnson, at the meeting.

Work on the museum has been underway for about 71/2 years and in June 2009, the museum board approved an abstract star-shaped design for the building.

Plans call for the 50,260-square-foot museum honoring the U.S. Marshals Service to be located along the Arkansas River, facing the Oklahoma border.

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Information from: Southwest Times Record, http://www.swtimes.com/

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