I think it is Arkansas.

1) Their state name
2) Some of their towns have Biblical names
3) Local lore claims that Isralites lived there century's ago
4) Friend of mines family owned about 1000 acres which included a mountain. He told me that there was a place that no one would go. They would get within a certain distance and fear would overcome them and they would leave. The land was settled by his great grandfather, about 100 years.