Confederate Records Stored at Rondo

The press that went to Rondo belonged to the Washington Telegraph, the only Arkansas newspaper that kept publishing through the whole war. Editor John Eakin had opposed secession until Fort Sumter, then made the paper an instrument for Confederate morale; a later critic called him a virtual one-man Creel Committee. In 1864 he attacked Lincoln on the front page over his use of enslaved people in the army. After the war he gave two former slaves forty acres and a house. A United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter co-sponsored this 2010 marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of Regional History — 4.7 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.
• Millwood State Park — 16 mi
  A park at the foot of the 3.3-mile Millwood Dam, built in 1966 on the Little River, where flooded timber makes serious bass fishing and the lake counts as a bird-conservation area.
• Atlanta State Park — 22 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.
• President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site — 26 mi
  The two-story Hervey Street house in Hope where Bill Clinton lived his first four years with his widowed mother and her parents, now a National Park Service site with a ranger-led tour.

More markers nearby

• Scott Joplin — 4.5 mi
• Texarkana — 4.5 mi
• World War I Memorial — 4.6 mi
• First Disciples of Christ in Texas — 4.6 mi