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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EQ_fight-at-the-levee_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
During the Battle of Helena on July 4, 1863, constant fire from Union cavalry and artillery near the levee helped stall the Confederate advance on Battery A.
The Union Troops at the Levee
Union Colonel Powell Clayton's 5th Kansas and
1st In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EP_helenas-doughboy_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
This sculpture, erected in 1927, is one of the best-known outdoor sculptures in the nation. Named Spirit of the American Doughboy, it depicts a World War I soldier attacking across the "no man's land" between the trenches. Created in 1920 by Ernes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EM_river-birds_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Seasons change, as they do, birds and other wild animals migrate from one place to the next to find food. Many birds follow the twists and turns of the Mississippi River as they journey from the northern United States to their winter breeding grou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EL_those-who-have-come-before_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
The Delta represents a "melting pot"o diverse cultures. And most of them got here by canoe.
Canoeing is the oldest form of water transportation on the Mississippi River-at least 2,000 years old! In the Quapaw tribal history, they arriv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EK_the-river-connects-communities_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Among our nations's most valuable treasures: a web of inland waterways that winds its way through America's heartland to the Mississippi River. Boats carrying people and freight use these well-traveled "marine highways" to travel from on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EJ_the-helena-bridge_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Built in 1961, the Helena bridge is about a mile long and 28 feet wide. It stretches across the Mississippi River, linking Helena with the town of Lula, Mississippi via US 49.
Before the bridge
Until the early 1960s, there was no bridge in Hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EI_does-the-river-ever-flood_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Flooding, a long-feared natural phenomenon, is a very real concern throughout the region. Water has spilled from the banks of the Mississippi many time over the years, causing widespread fear and devastation. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21EA_a-great-upheaval_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Thousands of refugee slaves came with the Union army into Helena and they continued to come. Helena became an island of freedom in a slave state.
The Union Army Recruits Freedmen
In the spring of 1863, changes in federal policy allowed
Fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21E9_a-union-stronghold-in-confederate-arkansas_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
The Union Army Takes Helena, July 1862
When General Samuel Curtis marched into Helena he was
not sure if he would remain. But the city's location on the
Mississippi River made it a valuable strategic resource that
the Union command did not w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21E8_phillips-county-goes-to-war_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 broke the nation apart. In May 1861, Arkansas became the ninth
state to join the new Confederate States of America.
The Union Army Occupies Helena
By the spring of 1861, most of the men in Helena were…