Richmond Church and Cemetery

Richmond was thriving by 1854, and in 1880 it won the Little River County seat. Its citizens built a courthouse on land deeded on the condition that the town stay the seat, and when that building burned they built another at no cost to the county. The seat left for Foreman in 1902, the depot town that grew beside the railroad's 1895 line a mile from old Rocky Comfort. The preacher named here, Lewis W. Davis, was also a lawyer and county judge, and his son Jeff became governor in 1901.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Millwood State Park — 12 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 — 17 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.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Camp at Richmond — steps away
• Little River County Seat — 3.7 mi
• Home of Governor Jeff Davis — 3.7 mi
• Red Lick Methodist Church — 12 mi