Confederate Salt Works Destroyed

Liberty Valley near Bald Knob was a prehistoric salt site, and some scholars think it may be Palisima, a village in records of de Soto's expedition. In the Civil War, workers boiled brine in large iron kettles and got about two bushels of salt a day. On August 10, 1864, Union troops broke most of the kettles. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls that the only notable Civil War incident in the Bald Knob area. Some kettles remain in private hands nearby, and the town itself grew up around the railroad and its stone quarry.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jacksonport State Park — 26 mi
  A steamboat port at the confluence of the White and Black rivers whose 1872 Second Empire courthouse, raised two feet to clear the floods, stands as the park museum.
• Greers Ferry Dam and Lake — 28 mi
  The Corps of Engineers dam on the Little Red River that President Kennedy dedicated on October 3, 1963, with a visitor center, a trout hatchery below the dam and a lake of 340 miles of shoreline.

More markers nearby

• Action at Whitney's Lane — 8.0 mi
• Naval Combat at West Point — 8.1 mi
• Guerrilla War on the Little Red — 8.5 mi
• Searcy Landing in the Civil War — 8.5 mi