Confederate Fortifications

After the fall of Helena, Major General Sterling Price began a line of earthworks north of the Arkansas River in late July 1863. By September 7 it ran about six miles from the river to eastern Crystal Hill and included three redoubts guarding the railroad and the Memphis road. It was never tested. Steele flanked the works on September 10, and Price withdrew. Confederates built mostly north of the river and the Union mostly south of it, and no above-ground evidence of the Little Rock works is known to survive.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State House Museum — 2.9 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 3.1 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 3.3 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 3.9 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.

More markers nearby

• Huntersville — 2.4 mi
• C.S.S. Pontchartrain — 2.4 mi
• Pulaski County County Government — 2.7 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 3.2 mi