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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MLA_patrick-ronayne-cleburne_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
front: Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General, C.S.A. Born in County Cork, Ireland, March 17, 1828; Killed at Battle of Franklin, Tenn. November 30, 1864. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Shiloh Cleburne right: Missio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ44_helena-and-the-trail-of-tears_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
"The steamer Warren brought news... of the loss of the steamboat Monmouth, and the death of at least one-half of her infamously crowded passengers. This fatal, and most appalling, accident arose from a collision between these two boats; but from t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ43_they-passed-this-way_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
"I have no more land, I am driven away from home, driven up the red waters, let us all go, let us all die together and somewhere upon the banks we will be there."After passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the United States government forced …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ42_the-battle-of-helena_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
From where you are standing, you would have had a ringside seat for the battle of Helena. On a brutally hot July 4, 1863, Confederate General Theophilus Holmes launched a three-pronged attack on the small Union garrison at Helena. Union defens…
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The Arkansas Frontier, 1835-1861Many ambitious men came to Phillip County before the Civil War, drawn by the opportunities offered by the frontier. Among them were lawyers Charles Adams, and James Tappan; Patrick Cleburne, and Irish immigrant; Arc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ2W_civil-war-comes-to-arkansas_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
In the first months of 1861 many Phillip County men joined militia companies supporting the Confederate cause. In February 1861, they marched on Little Rock to take the Federal arsenal. Most joined the Confederate army that spring. A Divided Na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ2V_we-are-all-the-same-as-dead-men_Helena-West-Helena-AR.html
Conditions in Civil War Helena were horrible. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, contaminated drinking water, and mosquitoes led to typhoid, dysentery, malaria and other diseases. Tents, churches, barns, abandoned houses and business buildings housed …
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The City of West Helena was a vision in the early nineteen hundreds of Edward Chaffin Hornor and John Sidney Hornor, cousins. Their plans for the creation of West Helena on the western slope of Crowley's ridge was accomplished with the filing on J…
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Phillips county lies in what is known as the Mississippi alluvia plain, also called The Delta. The earliest known inhabitants were native Indians, noted for building large earthen mounts for ceremonial purposes and to bury their chiefs. By the …
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"Helena occupies one of the prettiest situations on the river", wrote Mark Twain in life on the Mississippi, and is rich in history and culture, Hernando DeSoto crossed the Mississippi near Helena in 1541, finding a thriving native cultural. When …
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