Harriet Blanton Theobald Park

Greenville has been rebuilt more than once. The second town was destroyed during the siege of Vicksburg, when troops from a Union gunboat burned every building in retaliation for being fired on. Veterans returned to ruins, and residents chose a new site three miles away, much of it Theobald land. Major Richard O'Hea, who had planned the defenses at Vicksburg, laid out the new town. Then came 1878, perhaps the worst yellow fever epidemic Mississippi had seen, with 16,461 cases and 4,118 deaths statewide.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 0.7 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 4.7 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 8.5 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.
• Lakeport Plantation — 12 mi
  Arkansas's grandest surviving Greek Revival plantation house, built about 1858 by a planter who held 155 enslaved people in 1860, now an Arkansas State University museum.

More markers nearby

• Stein Mart — 0.4 mi
• Greenville's Writers — 0.5 mi
• Where Main Street Meets the River — 0.6 mi
• First Legal Liquor Store — 1.8 mi