Pottery-Making Families of Randolph County
During the 1830s, pottery-making families moved directly from the Carolinas and Georgia. Most came from the Edgefield District of western South Carolina, which boasted an important pottery-making . . . — — Map (db m118124) HM
Incorporated on January 25, 1843
Was at one time
one of the
largest cities in Alabama
with a population of
near 5,000
With the coming of
the California gold rush
in 1849
the city became
a dormant municipality
later to . . . — — Map (db m95077) HM
Church organized the founding year of the
Southern Baptist Convention. In 1876 a handsome
structure replaced the original unpainted building
on the site of the present chapel. In 1902 a
brick structure was erected. The Church hosted
the Alabama . . . — — Map (db m235574) HM
Founded March 31, 1864 by evangelist Moses Park. William Terry Kirby, Sr. and Nancy T. Greer Kirby donated four acres of land adjacent to their home for the church site. Services were first conducted at a brush arbor on the property, which later . . . — — Map (db m11732) HM
Randolph County Training School (RCTS) was chartered on
September 15, 1919 as a public school for African Americans. It
opened in the fall of 1920 with 73 students. The original two-story
wood structure was built with contributions from black . . . — — Map (db m235575) HM
Ella Gannt Smith, artist, inventor, manufactured in this building the famous Roanoke Dolls. The dolls, completely handmade, featured a head molded of plaster of Paris enclosed in a tight cotton fabric cut and stuffed to resemble body, hands and . . . — — Map (db m11730) HM
Pottery Shops in Rock Mills
After the Civil War, the establishment of the textile industry led to the growth of Rock Mills and subsequent potteries became established in town. By 1900, potteries here produced utilitarian wares covered in . . . — — Map (db m118795) HM
Near this site soon after Threat of Cusseta 1832, Peter A. Hogg built a grist mill on Wehadkee Creek, named for local Indian tribe. Settlement first called Prothro's Mill for James Prothro, who, with John McPherson, obtained a U.S. land patent in . . . — — Map (db m118127) HM
One mile north, on the east bank of the Tallapoosa River, was located Louina, named for an Indian woman who operated a trading post. Settled in 1834, it became chief business center in Randolph County with the county’s first newspaper, schools for . . . — — Map (db m92503) HM
Wadley is located on the west bank of the Tallapoosa River in southwest Randolph County. It was born circa 1901 with the advent of the new Atlanta-Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad and named for George Dole Wadley who was vice president and general . . . — — Map (db m206681) HM
Created December 18, 1832, from Creek Indian Cession and named for U.S. Senator John Randolph of Virginia.
Wedowee, the county seat, is named for the chief of a Creek Indian village which once occupied this site. First court was held near . . . — — Map (db m235568) HM
An opponent of secession, he fled north in 1862. Returning after the Civil War, he was elected first governor under the Constitution of 1868 and served one two-year term. He was one of three Republican governors. — — Map (db m19015) HM
White
Rubin J. Butler • Jesse Cummins • Sanford Carter • John Ror Carlton • Mathew Floyd • Sanford Gray • Hoyt G. Kidd • Maning Lashley • W.L. Mostella • Charley G. Moses • Davis A. Mickle • Shelly J. Pool • Charley G. Park • Rube Parish • Robert . . . — — Map (db m235570) WM
Irvin Harrington Ayres • Ray V. Bailey • Cleveland D. Beck • Elmer L. Belcher, Jr. • Bonnie L. Benefield • Harvey R. Bennett • Oliver J. Bowen • Willie D. Burke • R.J. Butler • William C. Cars • Donald Carson • Collidge D. Cofield • Claude B. Cook • . . . — — Map (db m235572) WM
Why Excavate at Davidsonville?
Although there are surviving
documents to tell us about
Davidsonville, the town existed for
such a short period that many parts of
the story were not written down. Day-
to-day activities were too common
to . . . — — Map (db m170943) HM
Businesses at Home
Davidsonville's shops and businesses
often shared the same building as
the family house. For example, Jacob
Garrett's public house on Lots 34-35
was part of his residence, and John
Miller ran a store out of his home . . . — — Map (db m170926) HM
Jail Construction
Trials of the accused and
incarceration of the guilty are two
functions of a county seat, so the
building of a jail was paired with
that of the courthouse. The funds to
pay for its construction also came
from the sale . . . — — Map (db m170831) HM
Legal Heart of the County
While trials of criminal cases might have
been the most exciting events that went on
at the courthouse, the day-to-day business
of municipal life was what made the county
seat important. It was here that land . . . — — Map (db m170919) HM
Courthouse Architecture
Prominently placed in the center of the
town square sat the Lawrence County
Courthouse. Although no illustration
of the courthouse has been found,
research indicates it was built on a
plan commonly used in the . . . — — Map (db m170851) HM
Beneath the Ground
Remnants of this short-lived, but ambitious, town lie buried beneath the
soil surrounding you. Excavations and archival research by the Arkansas
Archeological Survey are beginning to reveal the layout of the town, . . . — — Map (db m170947) HM
The steel beams surrounding you form a "ghost structure” to represent
the essence of the courthouse as it stood during Davidsonville's prime.
Arkansas's first courthouse took three years to complete (1819-1822).
It was the most prominent . . . — — Map (db m170920) HM
Myths
Within the short span of 15 years,
Davidsonville rose in size and
importance, and just as quickly
returned to oblivion. The quick demise
of Davidsonville led to local myths
about its fall—a yellow fever epidemic,
a mass . . . — — Map (db m170939) HM
Routes Established
The U.S. Congress established post
roads in the late 1700s, which were the
routes that carried mail throughout the
country and into the distant territories.
Having a postal stop in one's town was
very desirable, . . . — — Map (db m170935) HM
Houses
Davidsonville was laid out with 48 lots around
a public square, although only a few lots have
been examined by archeologists so far. Lots
held houses, businesses, and outbuildings,
and archeologists know of at least 10 . . . — — Map (db m170929) HM
The first post office in Arkansas
was established here on June 28, 1817,
with Adam Richie as postmaster. Old
Davidsonville was also the site of
the first court house in Arkansas,
built in 1815. The first United States
Land Office in Arkansas . . . — — Map (db m170802) HM
The steel beams you are standing under form a "ghost structure”
to provide an outline of the original home's dimensions.
Situated on the corner of the town square and next to the main road,
this house was prominent in the hustle and . . . — — Map (db m170932) HM
A Place to Gather
In 1819 Jacob Garrett purchased this
lot, built a house, and in 1821 received
a license to “keep a public house of
entertainment."
A public house, or pub, was a place
licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.
In . . . — — Map (db m170835) HM
River Highway
Davidsonville was located on a wedge-
shaped piece of land formed by the
confluence of the Black, Spring, and
Eleven Point rivers, placing it in the
midst of the transportation and trade
superhighways of the era. . . . — — Map (db m170927) HM
Confederate Brigadier General Jeff Thompson was known as "The Missouri
Swamp Fox" because he was so elusive at ambushing and escaping the Union Army during the first years of the war. General Thompson led a battalion of cavalry that conducted . . . — — Map (db m170349) HM
"Pocahontas is beautifully situated on the west bank of Black River… As a trading point, it is unsurpassed by any town of its size in the state."
J. C. Martin of Pocahontas
1857
As agriculture in Randolph . . . — — Map (db m170298) HM
(side 1)
Erected in memory of the significant pain and lasting effects suffered by the people of Pocahontas and Randolph County during the Civil War.
(side 2)
Site of the capture of Confederate General Jeff Thompson, who was . . . — — Map (db m172095) HM WM
This is a wooden fishing pier constructed in 2003 for use by all people. This pier begins 10 feet wide, and extends 40 feet to a shaded area which is 10 feet by 10 feet at the end of this 40-foot long boardwalk. The pier then extends 16 feet to the . . . — — Map (db m208463) HM
Billy Lee Riley was born in Pocahontas October 5,
1933. During his early childhood he lived just
off the Marr Street on Haw Street.
He recorded his first several hits, including
"Red Hot" at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis
and his . . . — — Map (db m159744) HM
Rock and Roll pioneer Billy Lee Riley was born to Amos and Helen Riley on October 5, 1933 in a white frame house located on this site. Riley and his band, the Little Green Men, helped originate the unique sound of Sun Records that became a . . . — — Map (db m208461) HM
Col. Robert G. Shaver established a camp near Pocahontas to train troops for the 7th Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A., including two Randolph County companies. With 1,250 men and officers, the 7th was one of the largest regiments raised in Arkansas. They . . . — — Map (db m159749) HM
Pocahontas was a "no-man's land" after the Confederate troops organized here in 1861 moved east of the Mississippi. Soldiers and irregulars from both sides patrolled the region. One group of 300 Union militia and cavalry from Arkansas and Missouri . . . — — Map (db m232529) HM
Randolph County was a "No-Man's Land" during all of the years of the
Civil War. Pocahontas and Pitman's Ferry were strategic locations because
of their necessary river crossings and important roads, and both the Union
and Confederate Armies . . . — — Map (db m170352) HM
deMun, a French aristocrat (Chevalier or Knight),
emigrated to the U.S. in the 1790s. A trained
draftsman, he became the right hand man of
Benjamin Latrobe, architect of the U.S. Capitol.
deMun oversaw the construction of the west wing . . . — — Map (db m170292) HM
The railroad depot was donated to the City of Pocahontas by Michael Parker to honor the memory of his Grandfather,
Mr. Earney L. Dickson
He was a prominent businessman in Randolph County from 1920's until his death in 1974, During his . . . — — Map (db m174944) HM
People have hunted and fished in the rich Black River Basin at least since the Paleo Indian Period (beginning around 10,000 B.C.). More recently, Native American built villages and mounds across the Mississippi River valley (3000 B.C.-A.D.1650). . . . — — Map (db m170367) HM
This is the site of the Old Black River Bridge. After gaining congressional approval, the Arkansas State Highway Commission design the Bridge, and the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania built it in 1934. The Bridge was . . . — — Map (db m180431) HM
William Hix operated the first ferry in Arkansas sometime around 1803
over the Current River, which separates northeastern Randolph County
from Missouri. It was on the Natchitoches Trace, also known as the Old
Southwest Trail. This important road . . . — — Map (db m170295) HM
In the mid 1950s Elvis Presley's career was just beginning to take off. Elvis had made at least one record at Sun Studio in Memphis when he and his then manager made a stop at this location to request that his record be played on KPOC. He was . . . — — Map (db m207800) HM
1861
• July 22 General William J. Hardee, commander of all 6,000 available troops in Arkansas, established headquarters and training at Pitman's Ferry and mustering at Camp Shaver in Pocahontas.
1862
• February March General Earl Van Dorn, . . . — — Map (db m170354) HM
The first court house in Randolph county, created in 1835, was erected in 1886, on the site of the town of Pocahontas, which was then known as Bettis' Bluff. — — Map (db m170293) HM
At the beginning of the War Between the States in the spring of 1861, the people of Randolph County, with but few individual exceptions, were in favor of the proposed Confederacy, and did all in their power to help establish it Units, of Confederate . . . — — Map (db m170289) HM
"We have a large quantity of vacant land in this country … and have room for one thousand good and industrious families, and bread and meat to feed them."
A Pocahontas resident
Jan. 2. 1852
The famed African Explorer, Stanley trekked into
unexplored east Africa in 1869 in search of the
long lost English missionary, Dr. David Livingston.
On finding him in 1871, Stanley uttered the now
famous line "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" . . . — — Map (db m170294) HM
Housed Confederate and Union Headquarters. Confederate General M. Jeff Thompson, the Missouri Swamp Fox, was captured here in August, 1863 — — Map (db m174003) HM
Everything needed for transportation by horse, buggy and wagon. Spinnenweber and Peters also formed a construction company which built most of the downtown buildings between 1890 and 1940. — — Map (db m172033) HM
This steam engine powered the Sallee Bros. Handle Factory in Pocahontas from 1956 until the mill was converted to electric in the Late 1980's. Steam was generated by burning sawdust and wood shavings produced in the manufacturing of striking tool . . . — — Map (db m180438) HM
The contemporary riverbank you see here barely resembles the site that fishers, hunters, farmers, and traders visited for 10,000 years. Some native trees are visible, however. Look for black willow and silver maple.
Farmers still grow crops, . . . — — Map (db m170361) HM
The Old Randolph County Courthouse has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the Interior April 24, 1973. — — Map (db m172011) HM
Sometime before 1830, Ransom Bettis arrived and built a home on the bluff
overlooking this site. He operated a trading post for steamboat passengers and
pioneers traveling down the National Military Road. Bettis Bluff, as it was called
then, . . . — — Map (db m170290) HM
"This … region [is] annually covered by water and at all seasons by a heavy growth of timber [and] thick can-brakes."
U.S. Rep. A. H. Sevier of Arkansas
Feb. 21. 1838
The Black River flows through . . . — — Map (db m170376) HM
This meteor fell July 1859 in the Black River Bottoms of Randolph County. It was discovered by A.H. Keith. Donated by the Keith family March 16th in celebration of Arkansas' sesquicentennial. — — Map (db m171651) HM
Randolph County
will remember
These gave all
Names not listed
World War I
We the citizens of Randolph County pay humble tribute to the living and the dead who helped preserve us a free people.
World War II
May . . . — — Map (db m172264) WM
Arkansas's first All-American in football was born in Pocahontas on this place, graduated from PHS and the U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville, accomplishing much both academically and in sports.
Schoonover was also 2nd team All-American in . . . — — Map (db m180434) HM
This church, constituted May 16, 1840, succeeded Walnut Grove, NW of here, (called Mt. Paran when organized, Nov. 1831, with 9 members). In 1840, Missionary Baptists, feeling a need for a separate church, met and accepted 5 acres of land for Church . . . — — Map (db m33555) HM
This marker is erected in memory of those pioneer settlers who laid the foundation of Vilulah Community and built its early progress upon the principles and practices of its Church.
Meeting under a bush-arbor in 1867, seventeen members . . . — — Map (db m12937) HM
Cuthbert is the site of Andrew College, founded here January 1854. Named in honor of Bishop James O. Andrew whose refusal to free his Wife’s slaves separated the Northern and Southern Methodist Episcopal Churches (1844). First President - Augustus . . . — — Map (db m47264) HM
This institution was founded in 1854 and conducted under the auspices of the South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church. It was in honor of Bishop James O. Andrew (1794-1871), a noted pioneer leader of Methodism. Augustus Alden was the first . . . — — Map (db m48220) HM
Twenty-four Confederate soldiers are buried here. These men, veterans of many hard fought battles, died in the Confederate hospitals located here, 1863-1865. They were the Hood, Hill, Lumpkin, and several temporary ones. Among the gallant . . . — — Map (db m46423) HM
Near here on the old Fort Gaines Road, the first Monday in August 1829, at the home of Allen and Jeanette (Roby) Wamble, was held the first Inferior Court for Randolph County which, at that time, included Stewart, Webster and Randolph Counties. . . . — — Map (db m230623) HM
Side 1:
Frederick Davis Patterson, M.D.
April 16, 1867 – Dec.31, 1930
Dr. Fred Patterson was born in Stewart Co., Ga., attended South Georgia Agriculture College, Cuthbert, graduated Vanderbilt University School of . . . — — Map (db m48653) HM
Fletcher H. Henderson (1857-1943), pioneer Georgia educator, built this home in 1888 and lived here until his death. Principal of nearby Howard Normal-Randolph School 1880-1942, his contributions to education won professional recognition and . . . — — Map (db m49025) HM
This memorial marks the site of Hood Hospital
Named for General John B. Hood of Texas who commanded The Army of Tennessee in the campaign around Atlanta, July 1864 - January 1865.
Andrew Female College proffered her buildings and grounds . . . — — Map (db m117129) HM
Recognized officially and designated in 1923 by the American Tree Association as “The Mother of Georgia’s Pecan Industry,” the giant seedling just west of this marker was planted in 1848 in the flower and fruit garden of Judge and Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m49055) HM
(Side 1):
The first formal meeting to organize a library association was held at Andrew College in April 1878 with Dr. A. L. Hamilton presiding. The thirteen members of the Cuthbert Library Club offered their book collections, and . . . — — Map (db m49087) HM
Randolph County was created by Act of Dec. 20, 1828 from Lee County. Originally Randolph County included all of what is now Stewart and Quitman and part of Terrell and Clay Counties. It was named for “John Randolph of Roanoke” (1773-1833), Virginia . . . — — Map (db m238725) HM
North
Though overpowered
their cause was not lost, for-
"Each single wreck in
the warpath of might
Shall yet be a rock
in the temple of right."
West
Heroism and love of
country were . . . — — Map (db m117205) WM
The Baptist Bethel Association, meeting in Benevolence in 1851, resolved to undertake “The Creation of an Educational Institution for Females, to be called THE BAPTIST FEMALE COLLEGE OF SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.” This site, in the little . . . — — Map (db m48695) HM
The first church building in Cuthbert was erected on this site in 1839. Deacons Stephen Lundy and Allen Moye bought this lot from Jane Reynolds in 1837. The congregation of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, constituted in 1831, moved from their former . . . — — Map (db m48579) HM
The area of this square marks the site of the first and second courthouses of Randolph County. The first, a two-story frame building, was erected in 1836. It was replaced in 1842 by a brick structure with entrances facing in four directions. A high . . . — — Map (db m48221) HM
Early Randolph County
The area that is now Randolph County lies within the vast territory in Georgia and Alabama once claimed by the Creeks. In the late 1700s and early 1800s several small Creek towns were scattered throughout the area, . . . — — Map (db m113738) HM
Located within what had long been Creek territory and containing portions of well-used trails connecting the area with the Seminoles in Florida, Randolph County became an important scene of action during the Second Creek War (1836-38). The war came . . . — — Map (db m223533) HM
Five miles NE is the Battleground of Echowanochaway Creek, site of the last engagement between Randolph County settlers and hostile Creek Indians on July 27, 1836. Captain Thomas Stapleton was killed in a preliminary fight the day before near . . . — — Map (db m113675) HM
Boudleaux and Felice Bryant
Songwriters Hall of Fame
Country Music Hall of Fame
Rockabilly Hall of Fame
All You Have To Do Is Dream — — Map (db m174500)
Alice first appeared in 1933 as the beastly cohort of the evil Seahag. Alice the Goon and her child soon became friends with Popeye and fan favorites. — — Map (db m246896) HM
Castor, Olive's brother, was always a schemer. In 1929 he met Bernice the Magical Hen, and planned a boat trip to Dice Island. A very young Popeye was hired to pilot their boat. Elzie Segar, the year before he died, introduced "Castor Oyl, the . . . — — Map (db m161717) HM
The town of Chester, Illinois, sprawls on the eastern bluffs overlooking the November 27, 1803, Horse Island campsite of Captain Lewis and William Clark on the west bank of the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Kaskaskia River. The . . . — — Map (db m144872) HM
Shadrach Bond, first Governor of Illinois (1818-1822), is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Chester. The first recorded settler in the area was John McFerron who purchased land in 1817 but Samuel Smith, who settled here in 1830, is considered the . . . — — Map (db m161446) HM
Father of Olive & Castor Oyl, husband to Nana and original cast member of Thimble Theater in 1919. Cole's character was inspired by Chester Library's founder, C.B. Cole — — Map (db m161721) HM
Elias Kent Kane, architect of the state's first constitution was born in New York in 1794. Kane studied law and began his practice in Tennessee. In 1814 he moved to Kaskaskia, where he was appointed a judge of the Illinois Territory. Active in . . . — — Map (db m161382) HM
The Mississippi "cannot be tamed, curbed, or confined…you cannot bar its path with an obstruction which it will not tear down, dance over and laugh at."
-Mark Twain
The bottomland in front of you was flooded from the Chester bluff . . . — — Map (db m161862) HM
For God and Country, dedicated in memory of those of our community who made the supreme sacrifice in the great wars. May they rest in peace . — — Map (db m190977) WM
These miniature replicas of Popeye first appeared in a dream sequence in the 1940 film "Wimmin is a Myskery". They returned as Popeye's four nephews in the 1942 film "Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and' Peep-eye" and many other films for four decades — — Map (db m161718) HM
In the third year of the American Revolutionary War, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark and his army of 170 Virginians set out from Fort Massac (Metropolis) on their way to liberate the town of Kaskaskia from British control. On July 3, 1778, Clark's army . . . — — Map (db m161445) HM
Shadrach Bond, first Governor of Illinois, was born November 24, 1773, in Fredericktown, Maryland. He came to Illinois in 1794 and farmed at New Design. In 1805 he was elected to the Indiana Territorial Assembly, where he was instrumental in . . . — — Map (db m161381) HM
On Dec. 19, 1919 Harold Hamgravy and Olive Oyl became the premiere characters of Segar's Cartoon Series, Thimble Theatre. Popeye's debut would follow Jan. 17, 1929. — — Map (db m196122) HM
On November 27, 1803, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their party camped on Horse Island, just opposite this place at the confluence of the Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. The next morning, Lewis left them to travel by land. Clark and the men . . . — — Map (db m144873) HM
Built in 1854, in continuous service from 1854-1930. Was originally part of a planked toll road between Breman and Chester. All of the timber in the bridge is the original with the exceptions of the floor, floor joist, roof and siding. Acquired by . . . — — Map (db m161447) HM
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