Huntersville

Huntersville, now part of North Little Rock, was the western end of the 133-mile Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, which carried supplies brought up the White River to DeValls Bluff. The Tenth Illinois Cavalry was posted there to protect the line and ran patrols north of the Arkansas River. In July 1864 a patrol of twenty enlisted men and a lieutenant skirmished with a small Confederate force, killing or wounding four and capturing one with no Union loss. If the line were cut, the Encyclopedia of Arkansas says, the Union troops in Little Rock could starve.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State House Museum — 0.5 mi
  The oldest standing state capitol west of the Mississippi, where lawmakers met from 1836, enslaved people were auctioned in the east wing and Arkansas voted to secede.
• Mosaic Templars Cultural Center — 0.9 mi
  The state museum of African American history on the site of the Mosaic Templars of America headquarters, a Black fraternal order's 1913 building on West Ninth Street.
• Arkansas State Capitol — 1.2 mi
  The neo-classical Capitol built from 1899 to 1915 on the old penitentiary site with state convict labor, free to enter, with the Little Rock Nine monument on the grounds.
• Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site — 1.9 mi
  The 1927 high school where nine Black students entered under federal troops on September 25, 1957, with a National Park Service visitor center across the intersection.

More markers nearby

• C.S.S. Pontchartrain — steps away
• Pulaski County County Government — 0.4 mi
• BISHOP CHARLES HARRISON MASON — 0.9 mi
• The Arsenal Crisis — 1.0 mi