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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YQ6_the-benton-courier_Benton-AR.html
Founded in 1876 by W.A. Webber as The Saline County Digest, this was the first newspaper and is the oldest continuously operated business in Saline County. The name was changed to The Review in 1882 and to The Courier in 1883. The original office …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YQ2_the-niloak-pottery_Benton-AR.html
Founded in 1910 by C. D. "Bullet" Hyten, a master potter, the Niloak Pottery operated in Benton for 37 years. The unique multicolored spiral pieces were hand turned using natural colored clays dug from nearby "Pottery Hill." Niloak, kaolin spelled…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YPY_old-southwest-trail_Benton-AR.html
The Southwest Trail, which passed this point, was one of the first permanent roads across Arkansas. It ran from Missouri through northeastern Arkansas to Little Rock and on through Washington to Fulton on Red River. Thousands of settlers followed …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJZ_saline-county-records-historical_Benton-AR.html
As Gen. Frederick Steele's Union army marched toward Little Rock in the summer of 1863, Saline County officials feared their records would be seized or destroyed. They met Aug. 31, 1863, and saying the Union "function is to cut up, mutilate, …
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Saline County's Everlasting Tribute Here we enshrine forever the glorious memory of the living and the dead who through their valiant efforts and bitter sacrifice kept us a free people Theirs Not to Reason Why, Theirs But to Do and Die We…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJX_saline-county-revolutionary-war-soldiers-a-war-memorial_Benton-AR.html
In honor of two Revolutionary War soldiers who chose Saline County, Arkansas as their home. After enlisting in the spring of 1777, they served through the winter at Valley Forge and to the end of the war in 1783. ASHER BAGLEY, Private BENJAMIN…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJW_quapaws-choctaws-and-chickasaws-passed-here-historical_Benton-AR.html
The Indian parties followed an ancient trail that became known as the Southwest Trail. The primitive trail took the tribal groups by where you are standing. William S. Lockhart was the first permanent settler in the area, arriving in 1815, at a pl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJV_the-gann-building-historical_Benton-AR.html
Built in 1893, the office of Dr. Dewell Gann, Sr. is the only known bauxite building in existence. The building was constructed by patients who could not afford to pay for services he had rendered them. The soft stone was dug from a farm nearby, s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJN_de-soto-trail-historical_Benton-AR.html
By here the De Soto expedition marched September 7, 1541.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TJL_saline-county-in-the-civil-war-historical_Benton-AR.html
Saline County held 6,640 people in 1860, including 749 slaves. Jabez M. Smith, the county's secession convention delegate, voted to leave the Union. The Saline Guards formed in 1861 and became Co. E, 1st Arkansas Infantry (C.S.). Their captain, Ja…
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