You are facing Battery B, the only battery on Crowley's Ridge the Confederates did not attack during the Battle of Helena. The men at Battery B, which was about three-quarters of a mile north of here, watched events unfold at Battery C and then . . . — — Map (db m107970) HM
"I have no more land, I am driven away from home, driven up the red waters, let us all go, let us all die together and somewhere upon the banks we will be there."
—Sin-e-cha's Song, heard on several removal boats along . . . — — Map (db m229331) HM
The Delta represents a “melting pot” of 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 arrived from . . . — — Map (db m229322) HM
On April 6, 1863, Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas made a speech at Ft. Curtis seeking to enlist former slaves into the U.S. army. The next day, hundreds of black men joined the 1st Arkansas Infantry (African Descent). Later designated U.S. Colored . . . — — Map (db m107825) HM
Guard, Garrison and Fatigue Duty
The United States Colored Troops (USCT) in Helena were part
of the Union garrison holding the city. Their duties were much
the same as those of white troops. Like all Union . . . — — Map (db m108015) HM
The City of West Helena was a vision in the early nineteen hundreds of Edward Chaffin Hornor and John Sidney Hornor, cousins. Their plans for the creation of West Helena on the western slope of Crowley's ridge was accomplished with the filing on . . . — — Map (db m51931) HM
Found in the floodplains of rivers and streams, these wetland communities depend on water. Unlike a swamp (where water is always present), bottomland hardwood forests experience seasonal flooding.
Disappearing forest
Before the arrival . . . — — Map (db m231810) HM
The impact of stormwater runoff on the Mississippi River is an environmental concern.
The quality and quantity of water in all of our streams, rivers, lakes, aquifers, and oceans is diminishing. We can reverse this negative trend by becoming . . . — — Map (db m231766) HM
Thousands of escaped slaves, known as Contraband, followed
the Union army to Helena in July 1862. Within weeks, the army
put hundreds of Contraband to work building Fort Curtis.
Hard Labor in Hot . . . — — Map (db m108032) HM
William Patterson was the first known Methodist to set foot on Arkansas soil. He came from Kentucky in 1800 and cut the cane, where the city of Helena now stands, to build a warehouse for river traffic. He became a Methodist Minister and in 1804 was . . . — — Map (db m51921) HM
The Lake View Community began in 1938 as a government resettlement project. It was one of three New Deal farm communities established for Arkansas' black farmers during the Great Depression.
Homesteaders were selected from 11 Arkansas . . . — — Map (db m299929) HM
After decades of effort, Helena won the bid for a major railroad in 1907. The city of West Helena was platted two years later. The new city's industrial center quickly filled with mills, lumberyards, cooperages and woodenware manufacturers turning . . . — — Map (db m262794) HM
In the 1850s Helena businessmen dreamed of a railroad connecting the city with Little Rock. They drew up plans, but powerbrokers diverted money from the Helena project to a line connecting Memphis and Little Rock. Arkansas's First Railroad . . . — — Map (db m262841) HM
The lumber industry and railroads were inter-dependent. The first could not have developed without the second. The railroads would not have come if not for the industry. Together they made West Helena a boom town. Boom Town Work was abundant . . . — — Map (db m262795) HM
The ink was barely dry on the plan of West Helena before the sounds of construction rang through the new town site. Helena Veneer Company, Ong Chair Company, Upham & Agler, Southwestern Wagon Company, and Dennison Sawmill were all building . . . — — Map (db m262797) HM
Imagine unbroken forests of huge hardwoods — white oak, red gum, sap gum, cottonwood, beech, cypress, hickory, black walnut, poplar, sycamore, catalpa, ash, hackberry, elm — many as much as ten feet in diameter. This was the Arkansas Delta before . . . — — Map (db m262796) HM
Fairground Transformed Fourteen-year-old Imogene Eakin watched with excitement as workmen labored at the fairground opposite her Cleburne Avenue home. They built guard towers, erected barbed-wire fence, and converted the exhibit hall into . . . — — Map (db m262800) HM
Between 1920 and 1927, Helena-West Helena was the second largest hardwood manufacturing center in the United States. Chicago Mill and Pekin Cooperage were the two largest operations in West Helena. Hardwood Manufacturing Leader Abundant local . . . — — Map (db m262798) HM
Near this point Highway No. 1 intersects
the route of the Old Military Road which
connected Memphis and Little Rock. Begun
in 1826, this road was built under the supervision of Lieutenant Charles Thomas of the
United States Army. John Pope, . . . — — Map (db m243306) HM
In early May 1863, Union troops left Helena to disrupt Confederate troops and destroy supplies and forage. Gen. John S. Marmaduke's Confederates confronted them at Taylors Creek on May 11, and after an hour-long skirmish the outnumbered Union troops . . . — — Map (db m243305) HM
Home of W. W. Campbell and Victoria Mann
Campbell. W. W. Campbell was a bank, civic,
and agricultural leader in Eastern Arkansas.
influence extended nationally as reported in
the November, 1947, issue of Readers Digest
and the November, . . . — — Map (db m243314) HM
In 1866 General Nathan Bedford Forrest, along with about 1,000 workmen, pitched camp in the vicinity of what is now Front Street on land belonging to the Izard and Prewett families. By 1868 they had succeeded in making a cut through Crowley’s Ridge . . . — — Map (db m92609) HM
Oldest active cemetery in St. Francis
County. Begun about 1854 as a family
cemetery by the Mallorys, whose
home was a short distance north.
Immediately north was the early town
of Mt. Vernon. Later other families
were permitted to use the . . . — — Map (db m243311) HM
This bell rang from the bell tower of the magnificent courthouse that graced this site for seventy-nine years before the present structure was built in 1976. The former courthouse was built in 1897 by Judge John S.R. Cowan of Hughes at a cost of . . . — — Map (db m172208) HM WM
St. Francis County was predominately sympathetic to
the Southern cause, raised five companies. The first
company, known as the Linden Dead Shots was raised by
Poindexter Dunn who also served as captain. This company
marched away from here in . . . — — Map (db m243308) HM
In God we Trust
Dedicated to veterans of St. Francis County
To the gallant men and women who served their country during Peace time and war with honor.
We shall not forget — — Map (db m172205) WM
U.S. troops from Helena came through Madison many times during the Civil War. A 5th Kansas Cavalry patrol fought here twice during a March 5-12, 1863, expedition. Iowa and Indiana troops passed through in April 1863, and detachments of men from the . . . — — Map (db m119982) HM
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