Boone County Men Served Both Armies

Harrison's place on the map was settled by a county seat contest. When Boone County was cut from Carroll County in 1869, the seat went to a new town on Crooked Creek rather than Bellefonte, where Confederate sympathy ran stronger. The town took the name of Marcus LaRue Harrison, a New York-born colonel who had raised the First Arkansas Cavalry (U.S.) from Unionist refugees in southern Missouri and who came to survey a railroad. In 1875 former Confederates tried to move the seat back to Bellefonte, and a countywide vote kept it in Harrison.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Boxley Valley Historic District — 21 mi
  A seven-mile farm valley of log houses, a grist mill and a 1980s elk herd inside Buffalo National River, still lived in and still grazed by cattle.
• Lost Valley Trail — 21 mi
  A box-canyon walk past a natural bridge, a 2,000-year-old bluff shelter and a 53-foot waterfall, the most popular hike in Buffalo National River.
• Buffalo National River at Tyler Bend — 26 mi
  The country's first national river, kept free-flowing after a dam fight that ended in 1965, seen from the Middle District's visitor center, the Collier Homestead and the Riverview Trail.
• Whitaker Point (Hawksbill Crag) — 30 mi
  The one designated trail in the Upper Buffalo Wilderness leads to Hawksbill Crag, a bluff over the river's headwaters in a valley no one has lived in since 1948.

More markers nearby

• Military Activity in Boone County — steps away
• Caravan Spring — 3.9 mi
• Skirmish at Rolling Prairie — 10 mi
• Old Carrollton — 12 mi