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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2N_anderson-ferry_Foreman-AR.html
Anderson Ferry, on Little River 2 miles north of this point, was in operation during the early 1800's. It served the pioneers traveling to southwest Arkansas and Texas on the Old Southwest Trail. Anderson Ferry provided a passage from Old Paraclif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2L_first-permanent-site-of-little-river-county-seat_Foreman-AR.html
The Arkansas Constitutional Convention of 1868 located the permanent county seat at Rocky Comfort, where it remained until 1880. The first term of court was held there August 4, 1868. A frame court house was erected with offices on the first floor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2K_in-appreciation-of-j-degoeijen_De-Queen-AR.html
Belonged to a family of wealthy coffee merchants. He became interested in financing the completion of the Kansas City Southern Railway. A town on this railway was named for him and he personally selected De Queen. 1897
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2H_columbia-county-calhoun-pioneer-settlement_Magnolia-AR.html
One of the very oldest settlements of this county. Here in 1840-1850 settled the Bakers, Barnetts, Booths, Couches, Deeses, Dixons, Garretts, McDonalds, McWilliams, and other pioneer families Near this point Harvey Crowley Couch, Arkansas distingu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2G_little-river-county_Ashdown-AR.html
Rocky Comfort, made the County Seat of Little River County in 1868, continued as such until 1880, when it was moved to Richmond and from there the Seat of Justice was moved to Ashdown.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A2F_little-river-county_Ashdown-AR.html
Birthplace of the twentieth Governor of Arkansas, one of the state's most colorful personalities.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1Y_confederate-headquarters-confederate-flank-attack_Leola-AR.html
Confederate Headquarters Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith led troops from Louisiana on a forced march to attack Gen. Frederick Steele's Union army as it crossed the Saline River to retreat to Little Rock. He arrived here on April 29, 1864, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1S_arkansas-military-institute-tulip-in-the-civil-war_Leola-AR.html
Arkansas Military Institute The state legislature chartered the Arkansas Military Institute in 1850, and the school was built on Chapel Ridge in Tulip. Cadets had to be over 14 and at least 4 feet 9 inches tall. Classes included Latin, Greek, s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1R_road-to-marks-mills-battle-of-marks-mills_Fordyce-AR.html
Road to Marks' Mills Gen. Frederick Steele's Union army set out from Little Rock on March 23, 1864, to join a second army in Louisiana and invade Texas. He made it as far as modern-day Prescott before turning toward Camden in hopes of finding s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A1Q_general-samuel-rice-confederate-cannons-captured_Sheridan-AR.html
General Samuel Rice Samuel A. Rice, then Iowa's attorney general, organized the 33rd Iowa Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1862 and was named its colonel. Stationed in Helena, Rice played a prominent role in the July 4, 1863 battle there and wa…
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