Bauxite, Arkansas

Alcoa, which residents called "the company," ran Bauxite from the start, and it housed its workers by race and origin. During World War I the company built camps named Alabama Town, Church Row, Italy, Mexico and Africa. Italy housed Italians, Mexico housed Mexicans, and Africa housed Black workers. The company also built churches, a theater, a school and a hospital, though largely for its workers and their families. In 1967 residents were told the company town would be abolished on July 1, 1969, and Bauxite incorporated as a town on January 16, 1973.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 17 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 18 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 18 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Big Dam Bridge — 19 mi
  A 14-foot-wide walking and cycling bridge built onto Murray Lock and Dam, 90 feet over the Arkansas River between Little Rock and North Little Rock.

More markers nearby

• Bauxite — steps away
• The Battle of Hurricane Creek — 2.4 mi
• George M. Holt — 4.0 mi
• William Ayers Crawford — 4.0 mi