On Center Street at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south on Center Street.
Arkansas Peace Society
In November 1861, Confederate authorities discovered a secret Peace Society in north Arkansas whose members opposed secession. Col. Samuel Leslie called out the Searcy County militia to round up members of the group. . . . — — Map (db m141593) HM
On U.S. 65 north of County Road 415, on the right when traveling south.
Devils Backbone Road Cut-Geology
This road cut exposes the upper Fayetteville
Shale, and overlying lower Pitkin Limestone
deposited in a shallow sea covering the southern
Ozark region as the Mississippian Geological
Period ended. As . . . — — Map (db m143764) HM
On Elton Britt Avenue just west of Center Street (State Highway 27), on the left when traveling west.
[side 1] Elton Britt, born James Elton Baker, came from the Zack community in Searcy County near the Buffalo River. Britt, from a musical family, was the first million seller in Country Music and received the first Gold Record . . . — — Map (db m229584) HM
On Center Street south of Nome Street, on the right when traveling south.
The county seat of Searcy County was created in 1838 and was first located at Lebanon, on Bear Creek, about five miles west of the present town of Marshall, to which place the seat of justice was moved in 1856. — — Map (db m141600) HM
"American Indians inhabited these Ozark hills for thousands of years until the turmoil of European exploration and long periods of drought caused their movement out of the highlands at the same time that European trappers, hunters, and explorers . . . — — Map (db m143763) HM
On Highway 65 near County Road 404, on the right when traveling south.
On January 22, 1864, 527 Union soldiers of the First and Second Arkansas Cavalry and Eighth Missouri State Militia Cavalry (U.S.), with one mountain howitzer, fought Col. A.R. Witt's Confederates in St. Joe. The Confederates fell back after an . . . — — Map (db m141566) HM
