The Town of Caddo Gap

Osro Cobb grew up in Caddo Gap, where his father, the lumberman Philander Cobb, worked. Born in 1904 near Hatton in Polk County, Cobb graduated from high school at sixteen, took two degrees at Henderson College in 1925, and was elected to the Arkansas House from Montgomery County in 1926 as its only Republican. President Eisenhower appointed him United States Attorney for the Eastern District in 1954, and during the 1957 Little Rock Central High School crisis he represented the federal government in its case against Governor Orval Faubus. He died in 1996.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Ouachita State Park — 29 mi
  The state park on Arkansas's largest lake, built around a spring a homesteader called healing in 1875.

More markers nearby

• De Soto At Caddo Gap — steps away
• The Narrows on Caddo River — steps away
• The Caddo People — steps away
• Montgomery County County Seat — 11 mi