James K. Hampson

In 1900 Hampson documented the discovery of a prehistoric mastodon skeleton 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the Nodena site.

[3] At the Nodena site, archeological artifacts from a 15-acre (6.1 ha) aboriginal village dated 1400–1650 CE were discovered by Hampson in the first half of the 20th century.

[6] The Hampson Museum State Park exhibits an archeological collection of early American aboriginal artifacts from the Nodena site.

[1][7] The museum documents the culture of a civilization which existed in a 15-acre (60,703 m2) palisaded village on a meander bend of the Mississippi River in the Wilson, Arkansas area around 1400–1650 CE.

Cultivation of crops, hunting, social life, religion and politics of that ancient civilization are topics of the exhibition.