Lincoln County Star City

Lincoln County was a creation of Reconstruction. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas says the General Assembly formed it on March 28, 1871, from parts of Arkansas, Bradley, Desha, Drew and Jefferson counties. The county court first met at Cane Creek Church on April 24, 1871, and Star City became the permanent seat even though it was not centrally located. Few battles touched the county, but on January 19, 1864, Col. Powell Clayton's cavalry clashed with a Confederate camp at Branchville and two Union soldiers were killed. A Confederate memorial went up in Star City in 1926.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Japanese American Internment Museum — 34 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

• The Orphan Company — 10 mi
• Cleveland County Court House — 18 mi
• Bayou Bartholomew — 19 mi
• Union Strategy and Pine Bluff — 22 mi