Military Road

Jacob Barkman's house stood beside the Caddo River where the Military Road would later pass. By the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, Barkman opened river traffic from this country to New Orleans around 1812. In the 1830s the road was laid along the older Southwest Trail through Clark County, passing near his home, and it became the county's main land route. Today U.S. 67 and Interstate 30 cross the Caddo within a few hundred yards of where his house stood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• DeGray Lake Resort State Park — 6.3 mi
  A resort park on a 13,400-acre lake made when the Caddo River was dammed, with a lodge, a golf course and a paddle trail through the islets.
• Garvan Woodland Gardens — 17 mi
  A 210-acre botanical garden on a Lake Hamilton peninsula that one gardener built over thirty years and left to the University of Arkansas.
• Ouachita National Forest — 23 mi
  The oldest and largest national forest in the South, proclaimed in 1907 to protect shortleaf pine, with a supervisor's office in downtown Hot Springs.
• The Gangster Museum of America — 23 mi
  A Central Avenue museum on the years when Hot Springs ran an open gambling town, with Owney Madden, the Southern Club and the 1967 shutdown.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Manufacturing — steps away
• First Manufactory in Arkansas — 4.4 mi
• Military Road — 8.1 mi
• Settlement of Midway — 8.1 mi