Entries Containing All of the Phrases «hempstead county» AND «arkansas»

By Jason Armstrong, April 22, 2023

Confederate Capital and Marker

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1 ► Arkansas, Hempstead County, Washington — 97 — Confederate Capital —

Near Franklin Street east of Izard Street, on the right when traveling east.

When Union troops occupied Little Rock on Sept. 10, 1863, Arkansas's Confederate government relocated to Washington, using the 1836 Hempstead County Courthouse as their Capitol building. The legislature met here Sept. 22 to Oct. 2, 1864, and the . . . — — Map (db m245665) HM

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2 ► Illinois, Madison County, Alton — Prisoners at Alton Military Prison — 1862-1865 —

On William Street north of West Broadway Street, on the right when traveling south.

Prisoners at Alton Military Prison The Alton Military Prison was inhabited by four different classes of prisoner, Confederates, civilians, Federal soldiers and a group called guerillas or bushwhackers. Confederate prisoners of war made up . . . — — Map (db m211487) HM

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3 ► Arkansas, Hempstead County, Washington — 60 — Archer Shepperson — 1850-1905 —

Near Carrigan Street 0.2 miles south of U.S. 278.

Archer Shepperson was born into enslavement in Arkansas on February 7, 1850. Freedom came in 1865, and the 1870 census recorded him as literate and laboring for a Black farmer near Washington. The following year, Shepperson was a deputy sheriff and . . . — — Map (db m315177) HM

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4 ► Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, Downtown — Arkansas State Capitol — 1836-1936 —

Near West Markham Street at Ashley Street, on the right when traveling west.

Arkansas State Capitol Built in 1836 The Ordinance of Secession was adopted here, May 6, 1861. This tablet placed by Memorial Chapter No. 48, United Daughters of the Confederacy, June 15, 1936, the one-hundredth birthday of this . . . — — Map (db m157495) HM

5 ► Texas, Austin County, San Felipe — Building the Town — Lot 20 —

Near 2nd Street at Farm to Market Road 1458.

San Felipe's First Townsfolk Arrived to find the "town" yet to be built. Many raised their houses, kitchens and stables with their own hands. Austin also enlisted skilled housewrights (house builders), sawyers, teamsters and blacksmiths to . . . — — Map (db m206316) HM

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6 ► Arkansas, Hempstead County, Blevins — The First Courthouse for the County of Hempstead — Territory Of Arkansas —

On Arkansas 29 2 miles south of U.S. 371, on the right when traveling north.

Was located in the log house of John English near this site on the old Southwest Trail for the years of 1819 to 1824. — — Map (db m246391) HM

7 ► Texas, Red River County, Manchester — 12166 — Jesse B. Bowman —

On Farm to Market Road 410 6.7 miles north of Farm to Market Road 195, on the right when traveling north.

Alamo defender Jesse B. Bowman was born in Tennessee about 1785. By 1811 he was living in Illinois where his son Joseph T. Bowman was born that year. Bowman and his family settled in Ouichita County, Arkansas, until it became more populated and . . . — — Map (db m297671) HM

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8 ► Arkansas, Hempstead County, Washington — Homesite of Dr. Isaac Newton Jones and Elizabeth Littlejohn Jones —

On Conway Street east of U.S. 278, on the left when traveling east.

Home-site of Dr. Isaac Newton Jones and Elizabeth Littlejohn Jones Benefactors of James Black, maker of the Bowie knife. Parents of Daniel Webster Jones, Arkansas Governor 1897-1901. — — Map (db m244939) HM

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