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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHK_bronze-star-medal_Bentonville-AR.html
The Bronze Star Medal is awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the military of the United States after 6 December 1941 distinguished himself or herself by heroic or meritorious service or achievement, not involving ae…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PG9_purple-heart_Bentonville-AR.html
In 1782 General George Washington created a new military badge for Enlisted Men and Non-Commissioned Officers called the Badge of Military Merit. This was the forerunner of the Purple Heart that we know today. The award fell into disuse until Gene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PFG_historic-rogers-post-office-building_Rogers-AR.html
This building constructed in 1918-19 cost a total of $75,000 including the site, furnishings, and fixtures. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it served as the U.S. Post Office for Rogers for over four decades. These 1918 photogra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PF4_van-winkles-mill_Rogers-AR.html
Peter Van Winkle's saw mill cut lumber for Confederate soldiers' winter quarters at Cross Hollow and Oxford Bend in early 1862. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Confederates used the mill to grind corn after their March 1862 defeat at Pea Ridge, and wounded m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PF1_victory-theater_Rogers-AR.html
The Rogers Victory Theater
Opened Monday, December 5, 1927, to a packed crowd of 750.
First Production: "American Beauty"
Notable Performers Over the Years:
Will Rogers, Conway Twitty
Designed by A.O. Clarke
Built by John Myler
It was the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PAA_dug-hill-community-center_Bella-Vista-AR.html
So called because steps were dug into the hill so settlers could reach the top.
Once existed two churches, a school and a cemetery. Area named and cemetery started about 1867.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6G_the-butterfield-overland-mail-route_Garfield-AR.html
John Butterfield was born in Berne, New York in 1801 and grew up on a farm amid the technological revolution of the first steamboat, the Erie Canal, the steam locomotive, and the electric telegraph.
In 1857, John Butterfield won a lucra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H83_camp-walker_Gravette-AR.html
This camp was established in June, 1861, by Brig. Gen. Nicholas Bart Pierce, a Benton County man, to train recruits from Western Arkansas and the Indian Nation. He was a West Point graduate.
Many Arkansas units, Greer's Texas regiment, Herbert's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AWO_rev-james-m-ingram_Lowell-AR.html
James Miller Ingram was a captain in the Confederate 6th Provisional Cavalry Partisan Rangers. Years after the war ended, as a self-taught minister he went to preach at a church and was murdered - shot in the back by 19 year old John M. Stone. Dur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AWN_cross-hollows_Rogers-AR.html
This site was donated to the Benton County Historical Society by Scarlett Biggs Wilson and Lara Wilson Rosenblum in honor of their parents/grandparents, Guy and Nell Biggs, early pioneers of the Cross Hollows area. Cross Hollows is recognized for …