Military Activity at Calico Rock

Col. T. R. Freeman, the Confederate officer named here, was Thomas Roe Freeman, a Missouri man: born in 1829, a blacksmith and livestock trader who became a lawyer and county judge. Captured at Crane Creek in February 1862 and exchanged that September, he went on to command a Missouri cavalry regiment that patrolled several north Arkansas counties. On January 20, 1864, his men fought a Union patrol at Lunenburg in Izard County and were driven back, yet his cavalry stayed active nearby. Paroled in 1865, he later served as prosecuting attorney, including at Jacksonport.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Calico Rock Historic District — 0.7 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.
• Jacob Wolf House — 11 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.
• Blanchard Springs Caverns — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Bushwhackers — steps away
• Izard County First Courthouse — 13 mi
• Old Military Road — 16 mi
• Wild Haws in the Civil War — 16 mi