Howard County in the Civil War

Howard County's Civil War feud did not end in 1865. Conflict between Confederate sympathizers and Union supporters carried into Reconstruction, and in 1868 Governor Powell Clayton put the area under martial law. On November 14 the state militia seized weapons and supplies from a store at Center Point. The resistance left three dead, twelve injured and sixty arrested, in what the Encyclopedia of Arkansas calls the Battle of Center Point. The county itself did not exist until 1873, when townships from Hempstead, Pike, Polk and Sevier counties were combined.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crater of Diamonds State Park — 16 mi
  A volcanic crater where anyone can dig for diamonds and keep what they find.
• Historic Washington State Park — 23 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.
• Millwood State Park — 24 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.
• President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site — 32 mi
  The two-story Hervey Street house in Hope where Bill Clinton lived his first four years with his widowed mother and her parents, now a National Park Service site with a ranger-led tour.

More markers nearby

• Center Point — steps away
• Sevier County in the Civil War — 14 mi
• Pike County Court House — 15 mi
• Henry Merrell — 15 mi