Home of Governor Jeff Davis

Jeff Davis was born in 1862 near Rocky Comfort to a Baptist preacher who was also a lawyer and county judge, and he was named for the Confederate president. As attorney general he sued every fire insurance company in the state, and in 1900 he carried 74 of 75 counties in the governor's primary. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls him a race-baiter. In October 1905, with Theodore Roosevelt in Little Rock, he spent most of his welcoming speech defending lynching. He served in the Senate from 1907 until a stroke killed him in January 1913.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Millwood State Park — 8.4 mi
  A park at the foot of the 3.3-mile Millwood Dam, built in 1966 on the Little River, where flooded timber makes serious bass fishing and the lake counts as a bird-conservation area.
• Museum of Regional History — 18 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.
• Historic Washington State Park — 27 mi
  A Southwest Trail town that was Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863 to 1865, then lost the railroad and kept its buildings, with a blacksmith shop and the 1836 courthouse.

More markers nearby

• Little River County Seat — steps away
• Confederate Camp at Richmond — 3.7 mi
• Richmond Church and Cemetery — 3.7 mi
• Hatchel/Barkman Caddo Indian Village — 13 mi