Old Carrollton

Carrollton lost its courthouse to a vote. Boone County was carved out in 1869, leaving the seat off center, and two of its courthouses had already burned, one in the winter of 1859-60 and another in 1866. On June 17, 1875, Berryville won the seat by twenty-eight votes. Soon after 1900 the railroad came through Alpena Pass, about three miles east, and the depot went there, along with some of the buildings. What remains is a cemetery and the 1876 Yell Masonic Lodge Hall, listed on the National Register in 1984.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lost Valley Trail — 18 mi
  A box-canyon walk past a natural bridge, a 2,000-year-old bluff shelter and a 53-foot waterfall, the most popular hike in Buffalo National River.
• Boxley Valley Historic District — 18 mi
  A seven-mile farm valley of log houses, a grist mill and a 1980s elk herd inside Buffalo National River, still lived in and still grazed by cattle.
• Withrow Springs State Park — 24 mi
  A 54-degree spring that runs underground into War Eagle Cave and out to War Eagle Creek, on land Roscoe Hobbs gave the state in 1962, with float trips and an oak-hickory forest.
• Ralph Foster Museum — 25 mi
  The College of the Ozarks museum named for the Springfield radio pioneer behind KWTO and the Ozark Jubilee, home of the Beverly Hillbillies truck and a Benton painting.

More markers nearby

• Skirmish at Yocum Creek — 8.0 mi
• Boone County Men Served Both Armies — 12 mi
• Military Activity in Boone County — 12 mi
• Caravan Spring — 13 mi