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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM219Z_saunders-pettit-chapman-cook-plantation-home_Lake-Village-AR.html
This home was built about the year 1848 for John H. Saunders and his wife Martha A. Pettit Saunders. During the Civil War engagement at Ditch Bayou in 1864 the house was used as a hospital for soldiers of both armies. A number of military dead wer…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P7V_lakeport-plantation-house_Lake-Village-AR.html
The Lakeport Plantation house was constructed circa 1859 for Lycurgus and Lydia Taylor Johnson. The skilled craftsmanship and lasting character are testaments to those who built the house. It is preserved in remembrance of all who lived and worked…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P6O_the-battle-at-ditch-bayou_Lake-Village-AR.html
It is the morning of June 6, 1864. Rain has created a muddy mess. To your left are four cannon. To your right are 600 cavalrymen and two more cannon. These men serve under Confederate Colonel Colten Greene. To your front is Ditch Bayou, and 700 ya…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P6N_the-casualties-at-ditch-bayou-june-6-1864_Lake-Village-AR.html
The battle at Ditch Bayou was a Federal effort to drive Confederates away from the Mississippi River, where the Confederates had been harassing Union shipping. Even though the Confederates were outnumbered here, they were able to inflict heavy dam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P33_chicot-county-confederate-monument_Lake-Village-AR.html
Front (West side)
"To the Confederate
soldiers of Chicot
County, the record
of whose sublime
self sacrifice and
undying devotion is
the proud heritage
of a loyal posterity."
Rear (East side)
We care not whence
they came,
De…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQR_lakeport-in-the-civil-war_Lake-Village-AR.html
Side 1
When Arkansas went to war in 1861, Lycurgus and Lydia Johnson and their family stayed with their home at Lakeport. By 1862, U.S. gunboats were common on the Mississippi River, and on Sept. 6, 1862, Confederate troops burned 158 bales of co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQ7_chicot-county_Lake-Village-AR.html
The county seat of Chicot County was located at Columbia in 1823, where it remained until 1855. The county took its name from Point Chicot, on the Mississippi.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQ6_italian-immigrants-on-sunnyside-plantation_Lake-Village-AR.html
In 1895 Austin Corbin, a New York banker and land developer, working with immigration officials brought 100 families from north central Italy to grow cotton at Sunnyside, a plantation located between the Mississippi River and Lake Chicot. These It…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQ5_new-hope-missionary-baptist-church_Lake-Village-AR.html
Jim Kelley, a slave, organized this church in 1860. His owner allowed the use of this plot of this plot of ground on which to build a church. On May 15, 1873, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Street deeded the property to the trustees of the church. New Ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OQ4_colonel-charles-a-lindbergh_Lake-Village-AR.html
In April 1923 Lindbergh, then an unknown 21-year-old mail pilot, experienced engine trouble and landed his airplane on the now-abandoned golf course behind this site of the old Lake Village County Club. He remained in Lake Village overnight. Durin…