Confederate Manufacturing

Arkadelphia's war ended before the war did. When Frederick Steele marched toward Camden in March 1864, his army briefly occupied the town, and Confederate cavalry harassed the column in skirmishes near Arkadelphia and on Terre Noire Creek. The campaign's first major fight followed at Elkin's Ferry on the Little Missouri River. The ordnance works, which had made light artillery, pistols and rifles, had its equipment moved to Marshall, Texas, late in the war, and salt production at the nearby wells stopped in 1864.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• DeGray Lake Resort State Park — 6.3 mi
  A resort park on a 13,400-acre lake made when the Caddo River was dammed, with a lodge, a golf course and a paddle trail through the islets.
• Garvan Woodland Gardens — 17 mi
  A 210-acre botanical garden on a Lake Hamilton peninsula that one gardener built over thirty years and left to the University of Arkansas.
• Ouachita National Forest — 23 mi
  The oldest and largest national forest in the South, proclaimed in 1907 to protect shortleaf pine, with a supervisor's office in downtown Hot Springs.
• The Gangster Museum of America — 23 mi
  A Central Avenue museum on the years when Hot Springs ran an open gambling town, with Owney Madden, the Southern Club and the 1967 shutdown.

More markers nearby

• Military Road — steps away
• First Manufactory in Arkansas — 4.4 mi
• Military Road — 8.1 mi
• Settlement of Midway — 8.1 mi