FORT SMITH — The transfer of 16.3 acres of riverfront property to the U.S. Marshals Museum has been completed.
Museum officials said Monday that the Robbie Westphal family had completed the land transfer. The property is nearly 10 acres more than the original riverfront tract that was donated several years ago to better accommodate parking and additional amenities at the museum.
The president and CEO of the museum, Jim Dunn, said organizers could not have picked a more fitting spot for the future museum. The site sits across from where deputy marshals crossed the Arkansas River into old Indian Territory to enforce the law.
The property is subject to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers navigation easement for channel alignment. The museum is working with the Corps to allow construction on the site.