Federal Raids on Burrowville

Marshall was Burrowville until 1867, named for Napoleon Bonaparte Burrow, a Crawford County planter and politician the Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls a secessionist. So the Union cavalry that rode in on January 23, 1864, were entering a town with a Confederate's name; county Unionists later pushed for the change to honor U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, and the legislature approved it on March 18, 1867. The Encyclopedia says the January 1864 Union expedition from Springfield burned the courthouse and the county records with it. A wooden courthouse followed around 1868.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Buffalo National River at Tyler Bend — 9.1 mi
  The country's first national river, kept free-flowing after a dam fight that ended in 1965, seen from the Middle District's visitor center, the Collier Homestead and the Riverview Trail.
• Rush Historic District — 16 mi
  The zinc-mining camp on Rush Creek that boomed from the 1880s, emptied after 1919 and now stands inside Buffalo National River as a ghost town.
• Blanchard Springs Caverns — 26 mi
  A living limestone cave in the Ozark National Forest, opened to the public in 1973 on a spring that once ran a Confederate veteran's gristmill.
• Jacob Wolf House — 28 mi
  Arkansas's oldest public structure, a two-story dogtrot log house at the Norfork confluence that served as the Izard County courthouse in 1829 and later as a family home.

More markers nearby

• Arkansas Peace Society — steps away
• Searcy County Seat — steps away
• Elton Britt — steps away
• Skirmish at Tomahawk — 13 mi