Lafayette County Court House

Lafayette County was created on October 15, 1827, from Hempstead County and named for the Marquis de Lafayette. By 1860 Lewisville had been the seat for roughly two decades, and the census counted 4,311 enslaved people against 4,146 white residents, so more than half the county's people were held in bondage. Wiley Cryer, who represented the county at the 1861 secession convention, owned at least 43 of them. The war broke the local economy: families that reported about $5,000 in assets in 1860 reported less than $500 in 1870.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Magnolia Square and the Columbia County Courthouse — 20 mi
  The 1906 courthouse and square at the center of a town founded in 1853, where oil came in 1922, Southern Arkansas University grew from a farm school, and Jordan Jameson was burned to death in 1919.
• President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site — 21 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.
• Logoly State Park — 23 mi
  Arkansas's first environmental education state park, built on the Magnesia Springs resort and a Boy Scout camp, with about 200 acres of mature forest kept as a natural area.
• Millwood State Park — 32 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.

More markers nearby

• Lamartine Pioneer Settlement — 17 mi
• General John Porter McCown — 21 mi
• Confederate Records Stored at Rondo — 23 mi
• Calhoun Pioneer Settlement — 26 mi