Cadron in the Civil War

By the Civil War Cadron was a ghost town. In early 1834 a party of Cherokee people being removed to Indian Territory, perhaps as many as 724 under Lieutenant Joseph Harris, was stranded here by low water in the Arkansas River, camped among the chimneys of abandoned houses. Cholera swept through the weakened group and many died. A 1991 census found 44 Indian graves and 36 unidentifiable ones, and there may be more unmarked. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas finds the nearly vacant town of no strategic importance in the Civil War.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 18 mi
  A day-use state park west of Little Rock around a 1,011-foot Ouachita peak, with a strenuous summit trail, the Arkansas Arboretum and a visitor center above the Arkansas River.
• Museum of Automobiles — 20 mi
  Winthrop Rockefeller's 1964 museum on Petit Jean Mountain: a cable-roofed hall of antique cars, the only known Arkansas-built Climber, and vehicles once owned by Presidents and Elvis.
• Petit Jean State Park — 21 mi
  Arkansas's first state park, founded in 1923, with a Civilian Conservation Corps lodge, Cedar Falls and a Trail of Tears overlook on a canyon-cut mountain.
• Big Dam Bridge — 24 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

• Faulkner County in the Civil War — 6.8 mi
• Murder of John Clayton — 7.5 mi
• Conway County in the Civil War — 7.5 mi
• Lewisburg in the Civil War — 11 mi