Before Fordyce was settled, when only a few houses stood in the woods around this section, Presbyterian minister E.M. Munroe of Princeton took this area under his care, for the first settlers were Presbyterians.
The first Presbyterian church . . . — — Map (db m305244) HM
Named for Samuel W. Fordyce, a leader in the building of the first
railroad through this area in 1882. Post office established June 25,
1883. Incorporated April 8, plat filed July 5, 1884. Second major
railroad reached town in 1905.
Became . . . — — Map (db m305250) HM
Road to Marks' Mills
Gen. Frederick Steele’s Union army set out from Little Rock on March 23, 1864, to join a second army in Louisiana and invade Texas. He made it as far as modern-day Prescott before turning toward Camden in hopes of . . . — — Map (db m121222) HM
