Camp Shaver

Colonel Robert Glenn Shaver, born in Tennessee in 1831, came to Lawrence County in 1850 and was licensed to practice law in 1859. His men called him Fighting Bob. After the war he claimed to have led the Arkansas Ku Klux Klan, a claim modern historians largely doubt. Charged with several crimes in 1868, he fled to New Orleans and British Honduras and came home in 1872 when the charges were dropped. He later headed the Arkansas Division of the United Confederate Veterans, and the 1911 reunion in Little Rock was nicknamed Camp Shaver.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Davidsonville Historic State Park — 7.8 mi
  The ghost-town site of Arkansas's first post office, courthouse and federal land office, on the Black River, with open-frame outlines of the courthouse and a dogtrot house.
• Powhatan Historic State Park — 14 mi
  A river port and county seat on the Black River whose 1888 courthouse, 1873 jail, log house and academy still stand where they were built, with a state archives branch in the same park.
• Crowley's Ridge State Park — 23 mi
  A 1933 state park on the loess hills of Crowley's Ridge, built around Benjamin Crowley's homestead spring and the stone-and-log pavilion, dam and cabins of the Civilian Conservation Corps.

More markers nearby

• Randolph County Civil War Timeline — 1.2 mi
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley — 1.2 mi
• General Sterling Price's Invasion of Missouri — 1.2 mi
• The Missouri Swamp Fox Is Captured in Pocahontas — 1.2 mi