Holt Collier

Holt Collier was born about 1846 into slavery on Home Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, held by the family of General Thomas Hinds. At about ten he was taken upriver to Plum Ridge Plantation, near what became Greenville, and trained to hunt, supplying meat for the plantation's labor force. After the Civil War he was prosecuted for the murder of a Union captain, James A. King, and acquitted. He taught young men of Washington County to hunt, among them the future senator Leroy Percy, and William Faulkner borrowed from his exploits for the fictional Sam Fathers.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 2.1 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 — 7.1 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 — 8.2 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 — 10 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

• Little Italy (La Piccolo Italia) — 0.3 mi
• Original Chinese Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Pvt. Robert T. (Bobby) Henry — 0.6 mi
• First Legal Liquor Store — 1.6 mi