Camp Jackson

Before Camp Jackson there was a commune. Dr. James E. Spencer, a Connecticut physician, founded a vegetarian community near here in 1857, modeled on the Oneida Community, with a post office, a paper called the Theocrat and thirty-eight people in the 1860 census. Spencer left once the society had paid him for the land, and by May 1861 the remaining members were authorizing a sale. Brigadier General Nicholas Bartlett Pearce then took the land for a Confederate training camp, which the Encyclopedia of Arkansas treats as the community's real end. Confederate heritage groups sponsored the 2015 marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Walmart Museum — 17 mi
  Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — 17 mi
  A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.

More markers nearby

• Arkansas & Oklahoma Railroad — 3.2 mi
• Camp Walker — 3.7 mi
• Battle of Maysville — 5.5 mi
• Fort Wayne — 7.0 mi