Izard County First Courthouse

The governor Izard County honors was a soldier more than a pioneer. George Izard, born near London in 1776, was a War of 1812 major general criticized for caution on the northern frontier before President Monroe made him Arkansas Territory's second governor. He reached the territory on May 31, 1825, and the county was created that October 27. His duties included overseeing the removal of Native peoples, notably Quapaw and Cherokee, and he clashed with acting governor Robert Crittenden and with the legislature. He died in the territory on November 22, 1828, after a month of gout.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calico Rock Historic District — 14 mi
  A one-block railroad-era Main Street climbing a hillside above the White River, rebuilt in brick and stone after the 1923 fire, with a hotel of homemade cement blocks.
• Blanchard Springs Caverns — 17 mi
  A living limestone cave in the Ozark National Forest, opened to the public in 1973 on a spring that once ran a Confederate veteran's gristmill.
• Ozark Folk Center State Park — 17 mi
  A state park of working craftspeople, a herb garden and live mountain music at Mountain View, born of a 1963 folk festival and a plan to pay for a sewer.
• Jacob Wolf House — 24 mi
  Arkansas's oldest public structure, a two-story dogtrot log house at the Norfork confluence that served as the Izard County courthouse in 1829 and later as a family home.

More markers nearby

• Wild Haws in the Civil War — 4.2 mi
• Site of Lacrosse Collegiate Institute — 4.2 mi
• Bushwhackers — 13 mi
• Military Activity at Calico Rock — 13 mi