Bayou Meto Historic Site

Two weeks after the fight at Reed's Bridge, Little Rock fell. On August 27, 1863, Union attacks under General John Davidson pushed Marmaduke's cavalry back across Bayou Meto but could not break their line, and Davidson withdrew to Brownsville at sunset. The city surrendered on September 10, after the Battle of Bayou Fourche. The historian Albert Castel argues that Price lost his best chance to beat Steele by abandoning the bayou line. Part of the battlefield was listed on the National Register on December 31, 2002.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Plantation Agriculture Museum — 13 mi
  A 1912 brick store turned museum of cotton agriculture beside Horseshoe Lake, with a 1920s Munger gin and exhibits that run from slavery to sharecropping.
• Old State House Museum — 13 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 14 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.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 14 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.

More markers nearby

• Confederates at Bayou Meto — 1.1 mi
• Memphis Military Road — 2.0 mi
• Marmaduke-Walker Duel — 2.7 mi
• Marmaduke-Walker Duel — 11 mi