Late in November 1862, Gen. John S. Marmaduke
with 2,000 cavalry occupied Cane Hill Ridge.
Gen. James G. Blunt with 5,000 cavalry and
infantry and 30 pieces of artillery met them
at dawn Nov. 28, 1862. Retreating slowly,
making stands at . . . — — Map (db m66696) HM
Cane Hill College, the first collegiate
institution of learning established in
Arkansas was founded here by Cumberland
Presbyterians on October 28, 1834. The
following persons were named by the
founders as the board of trustees: Col.
John . . . — — Map (db m66703) HM
First public cemetery for
Washington County Arkansas
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
c. 1830 — — Map (db m225062) HM
This is the site of
the first church established
in Washington County Arkansas
Bethlehem
Methodist-Episcopal
Church South
established April 17th, 1827 — — Map (db m225061) HM
As James Blunt's First Division of the Army of the Frontier massed in front of the Confederate artillery at the Cane Hill Cemetery, General John Marmaduke ordered J.O. Shelby's Rebels to (unreadable) through the hamlet of Boonsboro. As the . . . — — Map (db m225064) HM
The Fourth Division, Trans-Mississippi Army Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman's Trans-Mississippi Army contained four divisions: One of cavalry under John S. Marmaduke, infantry divisions under Francis A. Shoup and Daniel M. Frost, and a reserve . . . — — Map (db m225070) HM
Zebulon “Zeb” Edmiston was the patriarch of one of Cane Hill's most prosperous Victorian era families. Zeb and Eunice Jane Gray were married in 1852 and had four children: Nina, James, David and John The Edmistons farmed in what is now Clark County, . . . — — Map (db m225063) HM
A half block west across the street is the big spring that gave the town its name. Tents of the 16th Arkansas Infantry covered the campus of the academy to the east near the head of Brush Creek during the winter of 1861-62. Dr. M.D. Steele's . . . — — Map (db m167821) HM
Newly recruited Confederate troops gathered at Elm Springs in 1861 for training. After driving Confederate troops from their winter quarters at Cross Hollows, U.S. pickets occupied the area. Confederates camped here on a bitter cold March 5, 1862, . . . — — Map (db m167935) HM
In 1932, the Arkansas Council of Home
Demonstration Clubs established the
first Women's 4H House in America at the
University of Arkansas. Nine students lived in
the house during its first year, but it proved
so popular that the council began . . . — — Map (db m224754) HM
Dedicated to those who served and those who waited
HQ & HQS Battery
Austin, Carl D. ∙ Baldwin, Alvin E. ∙ Bartle, Billy J. ∙ Blake, Harold G. ∙ Blood, Rueben S. ∙ Bohannan, Billy W. ∙ Brown, Marion E. . . . — — Map (db m62976) WM
Agricultural Chemistry Professors Barnett Sure (1920-51) and Marinus C. Kik (1927-67) made major advances in nutrition science during their long tenures at the University of Arkansas. Sure co-discovered vitamin E and extended knowledge of how . . . — — Map (db m224345) HM
Born near Salisbury, North Carolina, Aug. 1797
Volunteer in Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Member of Tennessee Legislature, 1827
Grand Master of Masons in Tennessee, 1831
District Judge of Arkansas Territory, 1832-1836
Charter Member of . . . — — Map (db m59891) HM
One of the first erected after Old Main,
Buchanan Hall was among the prettiest
buildings on campus while it stood. It
was built as a men's residential hall and
occupied by early 1888.
It was named for John L. Buchanan, the
sixth president of . . . — — Map (db m224278) HM
The Campaign for the Twenty-First Century,
considered the most ambitious fund-raising effort
undertaken by an organization in Arkansas, spanned
3/1/1998-6/30/2005. The $500-million campaign's
objective was to raise funds for scholarship . . . — — Map (db m224692) HM
The Chi Omega Greek theater was built in
1930 as a gift from Chi Omega, the national
women's fraternity (sorority) that was
founded at the University of Arkansas in
1895 when four coeds and a faculty adviser
chartered the mother chapter, Psi. . . . — — Map (db m224250) HM
The Chi Omega was the first Greek organization to build its own chapter house on the University of Arkansas campus. Chi Omega (Psi chapter) purchased this lot in the Oakland Place Addition in 1928. Construction begin that that same year and the new . . . — — Map (db m224732) HM
Founded April 5, 1895
University of Arkansas
by
Dr. Charles Richardson
Ina May Boles
Jobelle Holcombe
Alice Cary Simonds
Jean Marie Vincenheller
Governing Council
April 5, 1995
Melanie Maxwell Shain, S.H.
Mary Ann Hancock . . . — — Map (db m224731) HM
[Top plaque]
Built A.D. 1930
Chi Omega
Greek Theatre
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department
of the Interior
[Bottom plaque]
The Chi Omega fraternity . . . — — Map (db m224254) HM
The nation's 42nd president, William J. Clinton (1993-2001), and First Lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were faculty members of the University of Arkansas School of Law in the mid-1970s. Mr. Clinton started in 1973, teaching trade regulation, . . . — — Map (db m224737) HM
From 1962-71, UA Agricultural Engineering Professor Xzin McNeal designed, built, tested and developed the nation's first successful pallet trailer system of stacking and storing cotton. His system solved the temporary storage problem created by the . . . — — Map (db m224263) HM
David Walker was born Feb. 19, 1806, near Elkton,
Ky. He moved to Arkansas in 1830, earning his
law license and settling in Fayetteville. Walker
was elected circuit prosecutor in 1832, then to
the Arkansas territorial legislature in 1835. . . . — — Map (db m224142) HM
On November 15, 1913, the Delta Iota chapter of
Delta Delta Delta sorority became the fourth
sorority installed at the University of Arkansas.
Founders were Juanita Moore, Vesta Kilgore, Aileen
McCoy, Bess Phillips, Anna Bryant, Alma . . . — — Map (db m224719) HM
“Arksoy,” the first Arkansas soybean variety,
was developed by agronomy professor
Chalmers K. McClelland and released by the
Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station in
1928. Agronomist Charles E. Caviness and
plant pathologists H.J. “Jack” . . . — — Map (db m224344) HM
The University of Arkansas became the first
major Southern public university to admit a
Black student without litigation when Silas
Hunt, of Texarkana, an African-American
veteran of World War II, was admitted to the
university's law school in . . . — — Map (db m224752) HM
Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, Evergreen is the first public cemetery in Fayetteville and final resting place of city, state and national leaders. The first burials began in the 1840s as the private family cemetery of . . . — — Map (db m206939) HM
The earliest known inhabitants of the hardwood forest of the Ozarks migrated to Arkansas over 12 thousand years ago through the Great Bering Strait. For the next two thousand years Bluff Dwellers hunted the mountain plateaus before the Quapaws, . . . — — Map (db m59882) HM
This was the campus of Far West Seminary, founded by the
Rev. Cephas Washburn and chartered by the State of Arkansas
in 1840. Its successor school, the Rev. Robert W. Mecklin's
Ozark Institute, was located a half mile east of this site.
These . . . — — Map (db m224756) HM
The Fayetteville Square served as the location of the Washington County courthouse from 1837 to 1904, when a new courthouse was built facing Center Street on College Avenue. Title to the public square (Block 27) was conveyed to the United States of . . . — — Map (db m59879) HM
Civil War in Northern Arkansas
The first battle in Arkansas occurred on February 16, 1862, at Big Sugar Creek just south of the Missouri border. The next day, Union Gen. Samuel Curtis' Army of the Southwest continued its southward march. . . . — — Map (db m224112) HM
Fayetteville's earliest
Methodist Church
Stood on this site
1840 – 1899
The Methodist Episcopal Church in Fayetteville was organized in 1832. The modest frame building of 1840, destroyed by fire during the Civil War, was . . . — — Map (db m59875) HM
University of Arkansas plant pathologists George Templeton, Roy Smith (USDA), David TeBeest and graduate student Jim Daniels conducted research in the early 1970s that led to Collego™, the first biological herbicide for weed control in a field crop. . . . — — Map (db m224721) HM
Near this spot a flag
was presented to the
First Confederate Company
organized in
Washington County
Co. E, 2nd Cavalry Reg’t
Arkansas Volunteers
Capt. T.J. Kelly
May 1861 — — Map (db m59902) HM
In 1951, through what is now the Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and
Life Sciences, the University of Arkansas
became the first land-grant institution in
the nation to assemble an agricultural
foreign mission. Developed in concert . . . — — Map (db m224749) HM
Dedicated
to those men of the
First Marine Division, FMF
who gave their lives
in the service of
their country
World War II Korea Vietnam
Southwest Asia — — Map (db m224110) WM
Imagine living in Fayetteville in 1866. The city with a population just under 1000 was still mourning its dead and rebuilding from the destruction of the War Between the States. Mass graves, lonely graves in pastures and roadsides held the remains . . . — — Map (db m224151) HM
Gray Hall was built as a men's residence hall in 1906 at the same time as Carnall Hall. It was named for Oliver C. Gray and stood near what later became the west entrance to Mullins Library. Its basement was used as dressing rooms for the football . . . — — Map (db m224276) HM
This house, built by Jonas M. Tebbetts about 1858, was used as headquarters by the Federal troops during the battle of Fayetteville on April 18, 1863. Two doors still bear scars of the battle -- panels splintered by minie balls. Confederate cavalry . . . — — Map (db m140425) HM WM
Hill Hall was named for General Daniel Harvey
Hill, who served under General Robert E.
Lee during the Civil War and was the fourth
president of the university. The hall was
built in 1901 and opened for use as a men's
residence hall in early . . . — — Map (db m224342) HM
President of University of Arkansas 1939-1941.
U.S. Representative 1943-1944.
U.S. Senator 1945.
Delegate to the United Nations 1954.
Author of Fulbright Resolution for International Cooperation 1943.
Originator of Fulbright . . . — — Map (db m59915) HM
A distinguished scholar, author, statesman, leader
President of the University of Arkansas 1939-1941
U.S. Representative 1943-1945 U.S. Senator 1945-1974
Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1959-1974
Author of the Fulbright . . . — — Map (db m224690) HM
Lynching in America
Before the Civil War, millions of African people were kidnapped, enslaved, and shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas under horrific conditions that frequently resulted in starvation and death. Over two centuries, the . . . — — Map (db m224104) HM
Five alumni of the University of Arkansas have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest distinction for supreme gallantry in military action. World War II: Lt. Maurice Britt ’41, U.S. Army, Italy, Nov. 10, 1943; Lt.(JG) . . . — — Map (db m224265) HM
After the Aug. 10, 1861, Battle of Wilson's Creek,
Mo., four of Washington County's first Confederate
war dead – Capt. S.R. Bell, Sgt. Wm. Brown, Pvt.
Henry Fulbright and Pvt. Samuel McCurdy – were
buried in Mount Comfort Cemetery. The . . . — — Map (db m224775) HM
In the 1950s, Professor Paul Kuroda of the University of Arkansas' Department of Chemistry predicted that self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions could have occurred naturally in earth's geologic history. In 1972, his prediction was confirmed when . . . — — Map (db m224271) HM
This community was first settled about 1830 when
Solomon Tuttle built his log house. A few years later
his son-in-law, W. D. Cunningham, built the 2-story brick
that is still standing. This home witnessed many historic
events, including the . . . — — Map (db m224757) HM
Phi Alpha Theta, the only national honor academic society in history and the largest honor society devoted to a single discipline, was founded at the University of Arkansas. On March 14, 1921, Dr. Andrew Cleven, assistant professor of history, met . . . — — Map (db m224269) HM
This Ante-Bellum Home was built on land granted to Washington County by an Act of Congress to build a court house, entitled “An Act for the Relief of Fayetteville, in the Territory of Arkansas,” and signed June 26, 1834 by . . . — — Map (db m59911) HM
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this copy of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
and loyalty
The . . . — — Map (db m92306) HM
In Memory to those soldiers
who fought for American
Independence during the
Revolutionary War.
These Veterans of the
American Revolution came to
live and died in Northwest
Arkansas
Names in left column:
Benton . . . — — Map (db m21227) HM
Rieff's Chapel Cemetery began in the 1840s with the founding of its pioneer community named after John Rieff, an early settler and farmer who arrived in 1838. The first known burial was of John Rieff's daughter-in-law, Mary Alexander Rieff, on . . . — — Map (db m225098) HM
This corner was the scene of hot fighting by Confederate troops under Brig. General W. L. Cabell and Federal forces commanded by Colonel M. LaRue Harrison on April 18, 1863. — — Map (db m224236) HM
Founded in 1957 by Professor of Music Richard Brothers, this 32-voice mixed choir of University of Arkansas students quickly gained worldwide critical acclaim. In 1962, Schola Cantorum [Latin for 'school of singers'] became the first American choir . . . — — Map (db m224280) HM
Significant dates in Fayetteville history include: Incorporated town in 1836; Old Wire road from Jefferson City, Mo. to Ft. Smith cut in 1835; Washington County Fair first held on the Square in 1856; first telegraph installed around 1860; . . . — — Map (db m59877) HM
Silas Herbert Hunt pioneered the integration of higher education in Arkansas and the South, enrolling at the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1948 and becoming the first African-American student to successfully seek admission to a Southern . . . — — Map (db m224346) HM
T.B. Van Horne, first pastor of First
Baptist Church, founded Fayetteville
Female Institute on this site in 1858.
Later rechartered in 1861 as Northwest
Arkansas Baptist Female Institute, it
housed a Federal arsenal which was
destroyed by . . . — — Map (db m224239) HM
Six African-American students from Arkansas pioneered the integration of the University of Arkansas through its School of Law between 1948-51. Silas Hunt was the first to enroll, but he died of illness in 1949. The first to graduate, in 1951, was . . . — — Map (db m224742) HM
has been listed in the
National Register
of Historical Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
September 25, 2003 — — Map (db m224779) HM
In 1970-71, zoology graduate students Frances C. James and Herman Henry Shugart Jr., working in Professor Douglas A. James' laboratory, published papers that introduced a new way to determine aspects of the environment associated with habitat . . . — — Map (db m224259) HM
During the 1980s, Professors Allen Hermann
and Zhengzhi Sheng of the Department of
Physics were in the vanguard of research in
superconductivity – the phenomenon whereby
direct current (DC) electricity, once
started, can flow essentially . . . — — Map (db m224248) HM
The University of Arkansas is distinctive among the nation's land-grant universities in that it incorporated teacher education from its inception. After the Civil War, the growing demand for public school teachers was met mainly by the establishment . . . — — Map (db m224282) HM
On April 11, 2002, the university received the largest
gift in the history of U.S. public higher education –
a $300 million challenge gift from the Walton Family
Charitable Support Foundation. The gift established
and endowed an undergraduate . . . — — Map (db m224693) HM
Dedicated to the brave
men who survived their
entrapment at the
Chosin Reservoir,
North Korea, in that
bitterly cold winter
of 1950 ...
who refused to leave
behind "their heroes,"
the dead and wounded.
Who proved again . . . — — Map (db m21102) HM
The University of Arkansas in July 1995 added Dale
Bumpers to the name of the College of Agricultural,
Food and Life Sciences to honor the former governor,
1971-1975, and U.S. senator, 1975-1999. He helped
propel Arkansas agricultural and food . . . — — Map (db m224314) HM
The University of Arkansas in July 1995 added Dale
Bumpers to the name of the College of Agricultural,
Food and Life Sciences to honor the former
governor, 1971-1975, and U.S. Senator, 1975-1999.
He helped propel Arkansas agricultural and . . . — — Map (db m224751) HM
Dr. Robert A. Leflar (1901-97) of the University of Arkansas School of Law was one of the nation's leading scholars in the field of conflict of laws. He taught at the School of Law for more than 60 years, and directed the appellate judges seminars . . . — — Map (db m224734) HM
Following a 16-0 victory over LSU in Memphis on Nov. 13, 1909, the University of Arkansas football team was greeted at the Fayetteville train station across the street by a crowd of fans and students. Arkansas was 5-0 after the win and would finish . . . — — Map (db m59912) HM
The University of Arkansas came into being under the Morrell Land-Grant College Act of 1862, through which federal land sales established colleges devoted to “agriculture and mechanic arts,” scientific and classical studies, and . . . — — Map (db m59913) HM
This house was built in 1845 by Judge David Walker. He sold it in 1850 to Stephen K. Stone, whose family lived here during and after the Civil War. A solid shot from Fagan’s Confederate Battery on October 3, 1864 pierced the west wall of the . . . — — Map (db m59910) HM
Designed by Euine Fay Jones as the home for Underwood's Jewelers founded in 1957 by William G. Underwood, CG. Fay Jones was named by the AIA as one of the 10 most influential living architects and in 1990 was awarded the AIA Gold Medal, the highest . . . — — Map (db m224243) HM
The most widely implemented automated mail sorting equipment in the world – the Wide Area Bar Code Reader – was developed by the University of Arkansas' College of Engineering. A $50,000 grant from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to Professors Dwight . . . — — Map (db m224261) HM
As early as 1906, Wilson Park, Fayetteville's original City Park, was first owned, maintained and operated privately by civic-minded A. L. Trent. Each spring, Trent's Pond, now used as a softball field on the east side of the park, was used by local . . . — — Map (db m224241) HM
Both soldiers and civilians used gristmills to grind
wheat and corn into flour and meal. Confederate
troops destroyed mills to keep Union armies from
using them. Union troops destroyed them to keep
C.S. guerrillas from using them as gathering . . . — — Map (db m224782) HM
The 26th Indiana Infantry and the 37th Illinois Infantry made another attack up the ridge. Colonel John G. Clark, 26th Indiana, U.S.A., wrote: "The regiment was ... ordered on the left of the 37th Illinois...Soon after...they were ordered to . . . — — Map (db m35421) HM
Brothers Columbus and Ad Gray of Company D, 29th Arkansas Infantry, withstood the first Union assault and counterattacked with Sergeant Ad Gray in the lead. Columbus Gray wrote home after seeing his brother fall mortally wounded: "I stopped, . . . — — Map (db m35430) HM
The heaviest casualties were around the Archibald Borden house and orchard. The first house was burned the day after the battle. Mr. Borden built this house on the site of the original in 1872. Charles W. Walker, 34th Arkansas Infantry, recalled: . . . — — Map (db m35365) HM
The battle on this field was fought between the Confederate army of General T.C. Hindman (Arkansas) and Federal forces commanded by Generals James G. Blunt (Kansas) and F.J. Herron (Iowa). Battlefield Park occupies the approximate center of the . . . — — Map (db m35248) HM
The original 10 acres of Battlefield Park were purchased in 1908 by the Prairie Grove chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and maintained by the U.D.C. for nearly 50 years as a memorial park. From 1886 to 1926 an annual reunion of . . . — — Map (db m35272) HM
Blocher's Arkansas Battery was the focal point of the Union attacks. A sergeant in the battery reported: "...The enemy advanced upon us with their artillery, under cover of their infantry, until within range of our battery when they opened a most . . . — — Map (db m35411) HM
From this spot the observer is viewing the terrain over which General James G. Blunt's 1st Division advanced on the afternoon of December 7, 1862, to attack the Confederate left and relieve the pressure on General F. J. Herron's 2nd and 3rd . . . — — Map (db m35329) HM
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