sentences:  In 1797, the Spanish established Campo de la Esperanza, which was a small fort along the Mississippi River.The Spanish abandoned the fort in 1802 and the area took its English translation "Field of Hope", which eventually became known as Hopefield shortly after the United States took possession of the Louisiana Territory.Crittenden County is bounded on the east by the Mississippi River and was established in 1825, eleven years before Arkansas became a state.