• Pay off the national debt • Repeal laws that
favors capital • Prevent aliens from owning land
• Abolish national banks • Government operations
on a cash basis • End agricultural futures
trading • Establish a graduate income tax •
Prohibit . . . — — Map (db m221190) HM
Founded by the Presbyterian
Church, U.S., in 1872. Dr. Isaac J.
Long was the first president.
In 1954 the college was moved
to a new and larger campus
one mile east of here. — — Map (db m221084) HM
The Arkansas conference of the Methodist Church, created 1836, composing Arkansas and parts of Louisiana and Indian Territory, held its first session November 2, 1836 in Batesville at corner of Main and Broad Streets. Bishop Thomas Morris presided. . . . — — Map (db m70559) HM
1903/4 Built / Barnett Brothers Department Store (Jim, Charles & Ira Nelson); 1938 & 1978; Remodeled 1988; Sheid Furniture; Furniture Gallery; 2001 Pro Dentec main offices. (Renaissance Revival style; splayed stone . . . — — Map (db m221104) HM
[North face]
In memory of
the sons of Independence County
who served in the
Confederate army,
their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
who, with patriotic devotion
remained steadfast to their cause,
during the war period. . . . — — Map (db m221187) WM
Union soldiers occupied Batesville twice during the Civil War. Gen. Samuel Curtis's Army of the Southwest camped near this site in May 1862 while threatening Little Rock. Union troops were impressed with the town's culture and appearance, saying . . . — — Map (db m70557) HM
Built in 1877 in the brick commercial
craftsman style with segmental arched
windows and pressed tin lintel caps,
this building originally housed the Boggs
Grocery Store. However, it was best remembered
as the home of the Menard Grocery, owned . . . — — Map (db m221115) HM
Col. Magness, 1796-1871, legendary wealthiest man of Independence County before the Civil War, emigrated from Tennessee with his father, Johnathan Magness, a North Carolinian, when Arkansas was a part of Missouri Territory. Col. Magness, a prominent . . . — — Map (db m221205) HM
In the harsh winter of 1862-63 Col. J.O. Shelby, a brigade commander of three Missouri cavalry regiments under Gen. John S. Marmaduke's Confederate cavalry command, arrived in this area from a raid into southern Missouri. He quartered his troops on . . . — — Map (db m162720) HM
Donated to City of Batesville 1960
This H.K. Porter locomotive 0-4-0 tank
engine was built by H.K. Porter Co.
Pittsburg, Pa. in 1927 weighing 21 tons.
Owners J.C. White Eng. Co. Mex. City, Mex.
Unknown Lbr. Co. in Louisiana
Alcoa in . . . — — Map (db m242388) HM
1836 — 1936
The first Arkansas Conference of
the Methodist Church met on
November 2, 1836
in a lodge hall on the upper floor
of the building that stood on this
corner at that time.
Thomas A. Morris, Bishop
W P. Ratcliffe, Secretary . . . — — Map (db m221137) HM
Elisha Baxter (1827-1899), 10th Governor of Arkansas, was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina. He came to Batesville in 1852, opened a mercantile business and was elected mayor in 1853. Baxter served two terms as state representative . . . — — Map (db m221210) HM
1908 built by S. A. Hail - single story dry
goods store; 1914 - second story
warehouse added; 1925 - third story
warehouse and brick front added;
1979 - Hail Dry Goods closed,
thereafter served as a hardware . . . — — Map (db m221113) HM
Authorized 1857. Manufactured
1858. First used 1859. Ringing out
from Independence County's
second courthouse, the first on
this site, this bell summoned
citizens to meetings, warned
them of danger, and called them
to celebrate. Today it . . . — — Map (db m221140) HM
This site has been the location of three Independence
County courthouses. The first, built in 1857, was
destroyed by fire in the 1880's and replaced by a
Gothic style structure. Batesville's finest example of
Art Deco style building . . . — — Map (db m221135) HM
The town of Batesville was selected as the county seat and the first county court house built in 1821, a year after the county was organized. — — Map (db m66720) HM
This building was constructed in 1904 by the federal government for the U.S. Post Office and the Batesville division of federal court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and was in use by federal agencies until 1974 when a new building was built a . . . — — Map (db m70558) HM
Established in 1855, the Independence County poor farm provided those in need with a place to live, medical care, and the opportunity to grow their own food in the garden patch. These houses were the community’s way of providing care to the poor . . . — — Map (db m226571) HM
Lafferty disbanded in 1969 and its members requested the church at 8th and Neeley be sold and funds divided between Philander Smith College and the First United Methodist Church of Batesville. The known history of Lafferty, organized in the . . . — — Map (db m70560) HM
Originally constructed in 1875 as an opera house,
eight years later in 1883 it was converted to a
mercantile store. In 1939, then known as the
Brewer Store, it was purchased by Commonwealth
Theaters, remodeled in the Art Deco style and, . . . — — Map (db m221126) HM
This two story native sandstone building in the
vernacular commercial was given an Italianate flavor
by its arched windows. It was built in 1886 by H.L.
Miniken as an extension of his brother George
Miniken's general mercantile next door at 134 . . . — — Map (db m221130) HM
The first steamboat to navigate the White River to Batesville was the Waverly which arrived in 1831 with Capt. Phillip Pennywitt as master and Capt. Thomas Todd Tunstall as pilot. The steamboat provided major transportation for both freight and . . . — — Map (db m153565) HM
Erected 1872-73. Used continuously
by the college until sold to First
Presbyterian Church in 1955.
Restored and dedicated by the
Session as Morrow Hall in 1956. — — Map (db m221088) HM
A light-colored crystalline limestone known as Batesville marble has been mined in this area since 1836 and most of the material used in the Arkansas State Capitol under construction from 1899 to 1915 originated here. Pfeiffer was also a railhead . . . — — Map (db m85504) HM
About the year 1826 John Miller, Robert
Crittenden, Charles Kelley and Richard Searcy
verbally gave and dedicated this plot of
ground to the town of Batesville to be used
as a burial place. On April 5, 1856, the
cemetery property, then called . . . — — Map (db m221189) HM
1872 built as Archer Mercantile on
ground floor and a saloon on the
second; 1888 altered to include present
arched windows (renamed Rutherford
Hall); housed a brothel, Ford Motor
dealership (Model T's stored on second
floor); . . . — — Map (db m221123) HM
This dog park is named in honor of Batesville native
Sara Elizabeth Low. Throughout her youth, she was
known for her kindness and helpfulness to others. Sara
carried these traits through adulthood and was remembered
for them by fellow crew . . . — — Map (db m242386) HM
Near this spot stood the homes of
three governors
of the State of Arkansas
Thomas S. Drew (1844-1849)
Elisha Baxter (1873-1874)
William R. Miller (1877-1881) — — Map (db m221079) HM
1924 built by Victor Wade - print
shop/Batesville Record that became
Batesville Daily Guard;
late 1940's - Sears store (city's first);
variety of retail establishments follows.
Vernacular-panel brick, raised . . . — — Map (db m221132) HM
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Williams Building
1887: Built/Richard Williams (formerly Evening Shade) Mercantile; 1898: Barnett . . . — — Map (db m221093) HM
Down this road came the settlers who settled Arkansas and the southwest.
What once began as an Indian footpath became a major route of migration for settlers into the Arkansas Territory by 1819.
The trail bypassed the swamps of eastern . . . — — Map (db m221061) HM
In 1835, the Hopewell Cumberland Presbyterian Church was established in a one-room log structure adjacent to the Hopewell cemetery. A community arose with many businesses including blacksmith shops, general stores, gristmill, cotton gin, barber . . . — — Map (db m206934) HM
David Hogan brought his family to Walnut
Grove from North Carolina in 1830. He was
buried in 1840 in this cemetery. Three of
his children are buried here; Charlotte,
wife of J.N. Churchill, for whom the
town of Charlotte is named, lies . . . — — Map (db m221078) HM
When the white man came into the White River
valley, Oil Trough Bottom was covered with a
dense canebrake inhabited by bear. Early
hunters rendered the bear oil and stored it
in troughs made from hollowed out tree trunks.
Use of these troughs . . . — — Map (db m221215) HM
