Washington County Cane Hill College

A free university in Fayetteville helped end this college. Cane Hill's Cumberland Presbyterians opened a school in 1835, the legislature chartered it as a college in 1852, and a brick building went up in 1858. In the war the dormitory survived as a Union hospital while other town buildings burned. Arson destroyed the college in 1885, a new building opened in 1886, and the free classes of Arkansas Industrial University, open at Fayetteville since 1871, helped close it around 1891. The 1886 building stands today, listed on the National Register in 1982 and restored in 2017.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park — 6.9 mi
  The December 7, 1862 battlefield where about 2,700 fell and Hindman withdrew in the night, with the Borden orchard, Hindman Hall's free museum, and walking and driving tours.
• Devil's Den State Park — 12 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park begun in October 1933 in the Lee Creek valley, with log-and-stone cabins, a 1937 stone dam, about sixty crevice caves and a 15-mile trail.

More markers nearby

• Generals Blunt and Herron — 7.0 mi
• The Borden House — 7.3 mi
• Herron's Attack — 7.3 mi
• The Archibald Borden House — 7.3 mi