Holcomb's Spring in the Civil War

John Holcombe gave the spring its name and the town its start. The settlement was first Holcombe Springs, then Shiloh after the church built in 1843 on land donated by William Davidson Quinton. Holcombe laid out plats and gave lots to business owners. The war burned many homes, businesses and the church, and his family fled to Texas; he returned in 1868 to draw the first town plat. When the town sought a post office in 1872, another Shiloh already existed, and Sarah Reed Meek suggested Springdale, for springs in the dale. It incorporated April 1, 1878.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area — 13 mi
  Arkansas's largest state park, about 12,000 acres on Beaver Lake, with the Van Winkle mill site, a graveyard of enslaved people, 54 miles of trail and regulated hunting.
• Walmart Museum — 14 mi
  Sam Walton's 1950 variety store on the Bentonville square, now a free museum with his 1979 pickup, a recreated office, the 1945 Newport store door and a 1950s-style soda counter.
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — 14 mi
  A 2011 Moshe Safdie building on 120 acres of Ozark forest in Bentonville, with free admission, six trails, two ponds, a spring, an arboretum and a relocated Frank Lloyd Wright house.
• Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park — 17 mi
  The December 7, 1862 battlefield where about 2,700 fell and Hindman withdrew in the night, with the Borden orchard, Hindman Hall's free museum, and walking and driving tours.

More markers nearby

• Regular Baptist Church of Shiloh — steps away
• Rev. James Ingram — 3.4 mi
• Wartime Gristmill Destruction — 4.3 mi
• Elm Springs in the Civil War — 6.0 mi