Bernice Depot

Captain C. C. Henderson founded Bernice in 1899 as a sawmill town in the big woods of virgin pine, and he built the Arkansas Southern Railroad, Union Parish's first railway, to carry the timber out. He bought the land from Allen Lowery and Dave Cole and named the town for Lowery's infant daughter, Bernice. A second line, the Bernice and Northwestern, nicknamed the dummy line, ran northwest toward Summerfield to haul logs. Henderson also gave land for Oakhurst Park. The depot is now a museum and tourist information center.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eddie G. Robinson Museum — 21 mi
  A state museum in a former women's gymnasium at Grambling State University, on the 408-win coach who sent more than 200 players to the pros.

More markers nearby

• Old Shiloh Community — 4.3 mi
• Cane Ridge / James W. Nicholson — 5.6 mi
• Scott Place Mounds — 13 mi
• Friendship CME Church — 13 mi