Conway County Cherokee Indian Boundary

The line began at the mouth of Point Remove Creek on the Arkansas River near Morrilton and ran northeast about seventy-one miles to Shields Ferry on the White River. The 1817 treaty made it the eastern edge of the first land reserved for the Western Cherokee in Arkansas. General William Rector surveyed it in 1819 with commissioners the Cherokee appointed, and a second 1819 treaty tried to settle objections to its wording and to the white settlers inside it. The Cherokee gave up the land in 1828. The 1936 monument on Cherokee Street in Morrilton misstates the line's direction.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of Automobiles — 8.0 mi
  Winthrop Rockefeller's 1964 museum on Petit Jean Mountain: a cable-roofed hall of antique cars, the only known Arkansas-built Climber, and vehicles once owned by Presidents and Elvis.
• Petit Jean State Park — 9.7 mi
  Arkansas's first state park, founded in 1923, with a Civilian Conservation Corps lodge, Cedar Falls and a Trail of Tears overlook on a canyon-cut mountain.
• Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge — 19 mi
  A 7,000-acre refuge on an island of former farmland made when the Corps cut off a bend of the Arkansas River in 1954, with winter ducks, geese and eagles and a 14-mile auto tour.
• Pinnacle Mountain State Park — 26 mi
  A day-use state park west of Little Rock around a 1,011-foot Ouachita peak, with a strenuous summit trail, the Arkansas Arboretum and a visitor center above the Arkansas River.

More markers nearby

• Conway County Seat of Justice — 0.4 mi
• Lewisburg in the Civil War — 1.1 mi
• Murder of John Clayton — 4.9 mi
• Conway County in the Civil War — 4.9 mi