In Memoriam Hyner Cemetery

The exploitation the marker names had specifics. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says New York financier Austin Corbin brought 98 Italian families to Sunnyside in 1895, bound to the company for 22 years before they could own land, while the company ran the gin, the packing house, the plantation railroad and the area's only store. Corbin died in 1896; malaria and falling cotton prices followed. In 1907 Justice Department agent Mary Grace Quackenbos documented harsh treatment of 160 families and implicated the company in violating peonage laws. Thirty-five families left for Tontitown in 1898.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Chicot State Park — 1.5 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 — 7.4 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.
• Japanese American Internment Museum — 22 mi
  A museum in the McGehee train depot on the two Arkansas camps, Rohwer and Jerome, where about 16,000 Japanese Americans were held from 1942 to 1945.

More markers nearby

• Columbia — 1.5 mi
• Chicot County Seats — 4.4 mi
• Saunders-Pettit-Chapman-Cook Plantation Home — 5.7 mi
• Lakeport in the Civil War — 7.4 mi