Little River County Seat

The Arkansas legislature created Little River County on March 5, 1867, out of parts of Sevier and Hempstead. Its first courthouse and jail stood near Alleene, on land owned by the first sheriff, William M. Freeman, and in 1868 Governor Powell Clayton had the county records moved to Rocky Comfort. The seat then kept moving. Richmond took it in 1880. In 1902 it went to Foreman, the railroad depot town that residents called New Rocky Comfort, and an election in 1906 chose Ashdown, where the present courthouse was finished in 1907.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Millwood State Park — 8.4 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.
• Museum of Regional History — 18 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.
• Historic Washington State Park — 27 mi
  A Southwest Trail town that was Arkansas's Confederate capital from 1863 to 1865, then lost the railroad and kept its buildings, with a blacksmith shop and the 1836 courthouse.

More markers nearby

• Home of Governor Jeff Davis — steps away
• Confederate Camp at Richmond — 3.7 mi
• Richmond Church and Cemetery — 3.7 mi
• Hatchel/Barkman Caddo Indian Village — 13 mi