Haunted Arkansas

61 haunted destinations cataloged across Arkansas, spanning 34 counties. The collection features museum, cemetery, and theater — every listing verified with family ratings, accessibility info, and practical visit logistics.

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The Lyon Building on the Lyon College campus in Batesville, Arkansas, a centerpiece administrative structure on the former Masonic Home grounds.

Museum / Historical Site

Lyon College — Brown Chapel

Batesville, AR

Lyon College was founded as Arkansas College in 1872 by Arkansas Presbyterians and is the state's oldest independent college still operating under its original charter. The current campus occupies a 136-acre site that served as the Masonic Home for Orphans before the college's 1954 relocation. Brown Chapel, the campus's defining structure, was constructed in 1958 as the first academic building on the new grounds.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Mount Holly Cemetery

Little Rock, AR

Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas was established on February 23, 1843 when prominent citizens Chester Ashley and Roswell Beebe deeded a four-block site to the city. Known as the Westminster Abbey of Arkansas, it holds the burials of eleven Arkansas governors, four U.S. senators, four Confederate generals, and many of the state's leading 19th-century figures.

$ All Ages Family: High

Art Deco administration building and Nyberg Building of the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium near Booneville, Logan County, Arkansas

Asylum / Hospital

Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Booneville, AR

The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium opened in 1910 three miles south of Booneville and grew to become the largest tuberculosis treatment facility in the United States by 1940, housing up to 5,000 patients at peak capacity. The facility treated more than 70,000 patients across 63 years of operation before closing on June 30, 1973.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

The 1964 Greek Revival Grant County Courthouse on the public square in Sheridan, Arkansas, photographed on a clear summer day.

Museum / Historical Site

Grant County Courthouse Square (Sheridan)

Sheridan, AR

Grant County's courthouse square in Sheridan, Arkansas has been the seat of county government since the county's creation in 1869. Three earlier courthouses occupied or stood near the square; the current 1964 Greek Revival building preserves corner markers from the 1910 structure and houses Grant County's first public clock. The Reconstruction era brought significant violence to the area.

$ All Ages Family: High

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Battlefield / Military Site

Jenkin's Ferry

Leola, AR

The Battle of Jenkins' Ferry was fought on April 30, 1864, on the banks of the Saline River in what is now Grant County, Arkansas. Confederate forces caught the retreating Union Army of General Frederick Steele at the river crossing during the Red River Campaign. By percentage of casualties relative to forces engaged, Jenkins' Ferry ranks among the Civil War's most costly single-day engagements. The 67-acre state park preserves the site of the pontoon bridge crossing.

$ All Ages Family: High

The rural Keller's Chapel and cemetery south of Jonesboro, Arkansas

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Keller's Chapel Cemetery

Jonesboro, AR

Keller's Chapel Cemetery is a rural burial ground roughly south of Jonesboro in Craighead County, Arkansas, associated with a small country chapel. The cemetery holds approximately 1,200 interments, about 75 of them members of the Keller family for whom the site is named, including nine Keller infants.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

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Hot Springs — 7

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa

Hot Springs, AR

Hot Springs' flagship resort opened in 1875 and was rebuilt in its current Spanish Revival form in 1924. During Prohibition it operated openly as a retreat for organized crime figures, with Al Capone booking Suite 443 repeatedly between 1927 and 1931 while the city's political machine shielded illegal gambling and prostitution operations.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of Bathhouse Soapery & Caldarium

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Other Dark Tourism Site

Bathhouse Soapery & Caldarium

Hot Springs, AR

On December 2, 1922, Violet Alma Boles — 20 years old, born November 16, 1902 — was shot and killed at the Japanese Tea Room at 366 Central Avenue in Hot Springs by Elmer Jones, a school acquaintance who had developed an obsessive fixation on her. Cemetery records from Greenwood Cemetery in Garland County confirm her dates exactly.

$ All Ages Family: High

Asylum / Hospital

Former Army-Navy Hospital

Hot Springs, AR

The United States Army-Navy General Hospital at Hot Springs opened in 1887 as the nation's first joint Army-Navy medical facility, built to take advantage of the city's therapeutic mineral springs. Rebuilt as a 412-bed brick complex in the early 1930s, it treated more than 100,000 veterans during World War II before closing permanently in 2019.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

The Gangster Museum of America

Hot Springs, AR

Operating since 2008 in downtown Hot Springs, the Gangster Museum of America documents the city's four-decade role as an 'open city' — a protected retreat for organized crime figures from the 1920s through the early 1960s, where local and state authorities permitted gambling, prostitution, and mob operations in exchange for a share of the proceeds.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Malco Theatre (Maxwell Blade Theatre of Magic)

Hot Springs, AR

The original 1910 Princess Theatre burned on Christmas Eve 1935 and was rebuilt as the Art Deco Malco in 1936, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building has seen four documented deaths across its history and was investigated by Travel Channel's 'Portals to Hell' in 2022.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Haunted Dining / Bar

Superior Bathhouse Brewery

Hot Springs, AR

The Superior Bathhouse opened in 1916 as one of the eight bathhouses on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park. It operated until 1983, then sat vacant for thirty years before reopening in 2013 as the first — and still only — brewery operating inside a U.S. National Park.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of The Poet's Loft (Former)

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Other Dark Tourism Site

The Poet's Loft (Former)

Hot Springs, AR

The Poet's Loft operated at 514B Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas, across from Bathhouse Row, where for more than a decade Dr. Paul Tucker and Suzanne Tucker hosted the long-running Wednesday Night Poetry event documented in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The venue is no longer at that address; the building sits within the Hot Springs Central Avenue Historic District.

$ All Ages Family: High

Little Rock — 6

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Capital Hotel

Little Rock, AR

The Capital Hotel has operated on W Markham Street since the early 1870s. Railroad magnate William Denckla substantially expanded the property in 1872, and it has served as Little Rock's leading downtown hotel through multiple eras of renovation and ownership.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted House / Historic Home

Curran Hall

Little Rock, AR

Built between 1842 and 1843, Curran Hall's first recorded owner sold the property almost immediately after his wife died in childbirth there. The house passed through several owners before acquiring its darkest period during Reconstruction, when it was associated with Klan-related violence that left documented fatalities.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

The Empress of Little Rock

Little Rock, AR

James Hornibrook, a Canadian-born saloon operator who became wealthy in Arkansas, completed the mansion at 2120 Louisiana Street in 1888. He died three years later at 49 from cardiac arrest during a card game. His wife died not long after. The property changed hands multiple times before being restored and opened as a bed and breakfast.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Little Rock, AR

On September 4, 1957, nine Black students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School under a federal desegregation order. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the National Guard to block them, triggering a constitutional crisis that forced President Eisenhower to deploy the 101st Airborne Division.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History

Little Rock, AR

The Tower Building is the sole surviving structure of the 1840 Little Rock Arsenal and the birthplace of General Douglas MacArthur. Arkansas militia seized it in February 1861 before the state formally voted for secession; Union forces retook Little Rock in September 1863 and held the arsenal through the war.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Old State House Museum

Little Rock, AR

Built between 1833 and 1842, the Old State House served as Arkansas's capitol for over five decades. In 1837 Speaker John Wilson stabbed fellow legislator Joseph Anthony to death on the House floor during a political dispute — one of the most notorious acts of political violence in antebellum Southern history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fayetteville — 5

Museum / Historical Site

Arkansas Air & Military Museum

Fayetteville, AR

The Arkansas Air & Military Museum occupies the 1943 all-wood hangar built at Drake Field in Fayetteville as part of a World War II military aviation training installation. The structure is one of a small number of all-wood WWII-era military hangars still standing in the United States and is listed on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery

Fayetteville, AR

The Fayetteville Confederate Cemetery was established in 1872–1873 by the Southern Memorial Association to gather and re-inter Confederate soldiers killed during the Civil War battles fought near Fayetteville, including the Battle of Pea Ridge (March 1862) and the Battle of Prairie Grove (December 1862). It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993.

$ All Ages Family: High

Haunted Hotel / Inn

Inn at Carnall Hall

Fayetteville, AR

Built in 1905 as the University of Arkansas's first women's dormitory, Carnall Hall was named in honor of English Professor Ella Howison Carnall, who died of typhoid fever before the building she helped advocate for was ever completed. The structure operated as a university dormitory for nearly a century before being restored and reopened as a 49-room boutique hotel in 2003.

$$$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of Tilly Willy Bridge

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Tilly Willy Bridge

Fayetteville, AR

Tilly Willy Bridge is a low concrete crossing on a secluded dirt road south of Fayetteville in Washington County, Arkansas. Sources indicate the present crossing was originally intended in the 1930s as a flood-control structure. The name traces to early settler Matilda Wilson Ford, whose name was locally shortened to 'Tilly Willy.' The original bridge was demolished in 2010 and replaced by a new structure opened in 2012.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Museum / Historical Site

Washington County Courthouse

Fayetteville, AR

The Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville was the seat of capital justice for the region in the late 19th century, with death sentences handed down inside and public hangings carried out on the courthouse grounds. The building's Wikipedia entry documents its history as a significant civic structure in Fayetteville.

$ All Ages Family: High

Fort Smith — 3

Museum / Historical Site

Clayton House Museum

Fort Smith, AR

Built around 1848, this Greek Revival mansion was pressed into service as a field hospital during the Civil War, where surgeons performed amputations and patients died in its rooms. After the war, federal prosecutor William Henry Clayton purchased the property in 1882 and lived there until his death.

$ All Ages Family: High

Museum / Historical Site

Fort Smith Museum of History

Fort Smith, AR

The Fort Smith Museum of History occupies the 1906 Atkinson Williams Hardware building, a five-story commercial structure that outlasted Fort Smith's frontier era. The museum documents Judge Isaac Parker's federal court — which tried cases from Indian Territory and executed 79 men by hanging between 1875 and 1896 — and the wider violent history of a city that served as law's edge.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

True Crime Site

Fort Smith National Historic Site (Judge Parker Gallows)

Fort Smith, AR

From 1875 to 1896, U.S. District Judge Isaac Parker presided over a federal court with jurisdiction over Indian Territory from this Fort Smith courthouse. Parker sentenced 160 people to death; 86 were executed on the gallows in the courtyard — the highest execution total of any single federal judge in American history. The National Park Service operates the site, which includes the restored courtroom, the original basement jail, and a reconstruction of the multi-trap gallows.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Jonesboro — 3

President Donald J. Trump participates in an emergency operational briefing at at Fire Company One in Lake Charles, La. during his visit Saturday, Aug, 29, 2020, to the areas of Louisiana and Texas impacted by Hurricane Laura. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Theater / Performance Venue

Craighead Company

Jonesboro, AR

The theater at 115 E. Monroe Avenue in Jonesboro opened in 1926 as the Strand Theatre. The City of Jonesboro acquired it in the late 1970s, renovating it into a modern performance venue and renaming it the Forum Theatre. Since 1986 it has served as the home of the Foundation of Arts, the premiere arts organization in northeast Arkansas.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Forum Theatre (Foundation of Arts)

Jonesboro, AR

Built in 1926 as the Strand Theatre, the Forum Theatre has operated as a downtown Jonesboro performance venue for nearly a century. The Foundation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization, has managed it for decades and continues to produce community theater and musical productions.

$$ All Ages Family: High

True Crime Site

Lynching of Wade Thomas Site

Jonesboro, AR

On December 26, 1920, Wade Thomas, a Black man, was taken from the Craighead County Jail by a white mob of approximately 400 people and lynched at the corner of Main and Monroe Streets in Jonesboro. The killing followed a police officer's death during a Christmas night craps raid; Thomas had been present at the scene. Authorities did not resist the mob's removal of Thomas from custody.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Camden — 2

Museum / Historical Site

McCollum-Chidester House Museum

Camden, AR

Built in 1847 by Peter McCollum from lumber imported by ship from New Orleans, the house was purchased in 1858 by Colonel John T. Chidester for $10,000 in gold. Chidester ran an extensive stagecoach operation across Arkansas. During the 1864 Union occupation of Camden, General Frederick Steele commandeered the house and used the parlor and east bedroom as his headquarters for five days.

$ All Ages Family: High

Aerial survey view of Poison Springs Battleground State Park

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Battlefield / Military Site

Poison Springs Battleground State Park

Camden, AR

On April 18, 1864, a Union foraging column of approximately 1,800 men — including the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry — was ambushed by 3,600 Confederate troops at Poison Spring, Arkansas, during the Camden Expedition. The Confederates routed the Union column and then massacred wounded and surrendering Black soldiers of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry during and after the battle, killing or mutilating over 200 men. Documented evidence including period accounts record post-battle killings. It is the worst documented atrocity involving Black Union soldiers in Arkansas Civil War history.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

El Dorado — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Newton House Museum

El Dorado, AR

The Newton House is the oldest building in El Dorado, built sometime between 1843 and 1853 by Matthew Rainey, the city's first settler. The vernacular two-story wood-frame structure features a central hall plan and retains original construction details. It was relocated from the center of its original 4-acre parcel to the edge of the property in 1910. The South Arkansas Historical Foundation acquired it and operates it as a museum; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 6, 1974, and incorporated into the Murphy-Hill Historic District in 2007.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

Rialto Theatre Music Hall

El Dorado, AR

The Rialto Theatre opened in 1929, built during El Dorado's oil boom for $250,000 and designed by the firm of Kolben, Hunter and Boyd in the Egyptian Revival style. Its brick facade features basketweave patterning and decorative stone Egyptian Revival details. Originally seating 1,400, the theater was owned for decades by the McWilliams family and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. After closing in 2006, it was acquired by the Murphy Arts District in 2012 and restored for active use.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Eureka Springs — 2

1886 Crescent Hotel exterior in Eureka Springs, Arkansas — historic stone Romanesque Revival hotel viewed from below

Haunted Hotel / Inn

1886 Crescent Hotel & Spa

Eureka Springs, AR

The 1886 Crescent Hotel was built as a luxury Victorian resort atop the Ozark mountains of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, then briefly operated as a women's college before its most notorious chapter: Norman Baker's fraudulent cancer clinic from 1937 to 1940. Baker charged dying patients for treatments that offered no medical benefit, and the hotel retains his intact basement morgue.

$$$ All Ages (Kids Ghost Tour for ages 5-12) Family: Moderate

Haunted Hotel / Inn

1905 Basin Park Hotel

Eureka Springs, AR

The 1905 Basin Park Hotel is a seven-story limestone hotel in downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas, built on the site of the Perry House, an 1881 hotel that burned in 1890. The Basin Park's distinctive limestone-cut design, with every floor opening at ground level on its hillside, was featured by Ripley's Believe It or Not.

$$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Magnolia — 2

Theater / Performance Venue

Cameo Theatre

Magnolia, AR

The Cameo Theatre was constructed in 1949 in Magnolia, Arkansas, and served as the city's primary movie palace until its closure in 2012. Designed by architecture firm Ginocchio & Cromwell, the theater featured 850 seats and ornamental murals. W.P. Florence, Jr. owned and operated the theater until his retirement in 2000. Stars Cinema subsequently operated the facility until 2012.

$ All Ages Family: High

Exterior of the Harton Theatre on the campus of Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Arkansas, a historic 1909 performance venue

Theater / Performance Venue

Harton Theatre, Southern Arkansas University

Magnolia, AR

Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia traces its origins to the Third District Agricultural School established in 1909. The institution became Southern Arkansas University in 1976. The Harton Theatre is the home of the SAU Department of Theatre and hosts the university's main stage season.

$ All Ages Family: High

Van Buren — 2

Museum / Historical Site

Crawford County Courthouse

Van Buren, AR

The Crawford County Courthouse in Van Buren dates its original section to 1842, making it a candidate for the oldest courthouse in continuous active use west of the Mississippi River. Arsonists gutted the building in 1877 during a bitter county-seat dispute, but it was rebuilt within the surviving original walls. The Civil War left its mark on the structure as well — the building was used as a military post during the conflict.

$ All Ages Family: High

Theater / Performance Venue

King Opera House Theatre

Van Buren, AR

The King Opera House in Van Buren, Arkansas first opened in 1891 and was acquired by Colonel Henry P. King in 1898, who transformed it into an opera house with storefronts at the street level. The building is a contributing property to the Van Buren Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Arts on Main has managed the venue since 2022.

$$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Arkadelphia — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Henderson State University

Arkadelphia, AR

Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas was founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College and became a state institution in the early 20th century. Arkansas Hall serves the university's performing arts programs and contains a full-equipped theater complex including a studio theater, auditorium, and dance studio.

$ All Ages Family: High

Berryville — 1

Berryville Agriculture Building, South of Freeman Ave., east of Linda St., north of W. College Ave., and west of Ferguson St. Berryville

Museum / Historical Site

Berryville High School

Berryville, AR

Berryville High School operates as a comprehensive secondary institution in the Berryville School District in Carroll County, Arkansas. The school serves students in grades 9-12 and includes athletic facilities including a gymnasium. The gym's history and any documented trauma remain undocumented in accessible public sources.

$ School Hours Only Family: High

Bono — 1

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Bono Bridge

Bono, AR

Bono Bridge was a railroad-overpass bridge in the town of Bono in Craighead County, Arkansas, near Jonesboro. Local reporting describes the bridge as dating to the 1800s, with its wooden elements torn down in the early 2000s and the structure ultimately demolished around 2011. The site remains a well-known location in regional ghost lore.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Clarksville — 1

Stone Normanesque castellated facade of the Bunch-Walton Post 22 American Legion Hut in Clarksville, Arkansas, built from native stone in the 1930s

Other Dark Tourism Site

American Legion Hall

Clarksville, AR

The Bunch-Walton Post No. 22 American Legion Hut is a historic two-story structure constructed from native stone in Clarksville, Arkansas. Built on a raised foundation on what was formerly an island in Spadra Creek, the building displays distinctive Normanesque castellated architecture inspired by European military structures from World War I. The structure serves as a veterans hall and historical landmark.

$ All Ages Family: High

Cotter — 1

The Cotter Bridge's concrete rainbow arches spanning the White River near Cotter, Arkansas

Outdoor / Natural Site

Cotter Bridge (R.M. Ruthven Bridge)

Cotter, AR

The Cotter Bridge, officially renamed the R.M. Ruthven Bridge in 1976, carries U.S. Highway 62 Business over the White River near Cotter in Baxter County, Arkansas. Designed by the Marsh Engineering Company and completed in 1930, its distinctive concrete rainbow arches made it Arkansas's first National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

$ All Ages Family: High

De Queen — 1

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Avon Cemetery

De Queen, AR

Avon Cemetery is a rural burial ground in the Avon community near De Queen in Sevier County, southwest Arkansas. Little formal historical documentation is publicly available for the cemetery, which is typical of small rural burial grounds in the region. Its modern notoriety stems almost entirely from a local ghost legend rather than documented historical events.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Garfield — 1

Battlefield / Military Site

Pea Ridge National Military Park (Elkhorn Tavern)

Garfield, AR

The Battle of Pea Ridge (March 7–8, 1862) pitted roughly 26,000 soldiers across two days of fighting across 4,300 acres of Ozark terrain. Union General Samuel Curtis repulsed a Confederate offensive under General Earl Van Dorn, effectively ending Confederate hopes for holding Missouri. Elkhorn Tavern, a stagecoach stop on Telegraph Road, changed hands twice during the fighting and was used as a field hospital by both sides.

$ All Ages Family: High

Helena-West Helena — 1

Cemetery / Burial Ground

Maple Hill Cemetery and Helena Confederate Cemetery

Helena-West Helena, AR

Maple Hill Cemetery in Helena was established after the 1863 Battle of Helena damaged or destroyed the city's original burial ground. The cemetery contains more than 73 Confederate soldiers including 23 killed in the July 4, 1863 assault on Helena, and holds the graves of three Confederate generals. It serves as one of the primary historical sites documenting the Battle of Helena's human toll.

$ All Ages Family: High

Judsonia — 1

Aerial survey view of Evergreen Cemetery

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Evergreen Cemetery

Judsonia, AR

Evergreen Cemetery, also called Judsonia Cemetery, is a historic burial ground in Judsonia, White County, Arkansas, dating to the 19th century. It contains the 1894 Grand Army of the Republic Monument surrounded by graves of Union veterans, and a notable marble statue marking the grave of Laura Lee Henson, an 18-year-old who died in 1914 of injuries from a fire.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Marion — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Sultana Disaster Museum

Marion, AR

On April 27, 1865 — twelve days after Lincoln's assassination — the steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River seven miles above Memphis, killing approximately 1,169 Union soldiers who had just been released from Confederate prison camps and were headed home. The ship was certified for 376 passengers but was carrying an estimated 2,300 to 2,500 people, the result of a bribery scheme in which an army officer accepted payment per prisoner loaded regardless of capacity. The Sultana disaster remains the deadliest maritime catastrophe in American history.

$ All Ages Family: High

Mena — 1

Aerial survey view of Rich Mountain Pioneer Cemetery

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Rich Mountain Pioneer Cemetery

Mena, AR

Rich Mountain Pioneer Cemetery is a small 19th-century burial ground on the slope of Rich Mountain in the Ouachita National Forest, Polk County, Arkansas, west of Queen Wilhelmina State Park. James Witherspoon set aside a two-acre family plot here, and roughly twenty Rich Mountain settlers were eventually buried in the cemetery, most marked only with native stones.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Monette — 1

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Monette Cemetery

Monette, AR

Monette Cemetery in Craighead County, Arkansas contains a notable architectural anomaly: a mausoleum that was originally constructed with glass panels, allowing visibility of the remains inside. When the remains began to decay visibly, the community sealed the structure in concrete and painted it over. The mausoleum bears no identifying name or date.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

New Edinburg — 1

Marks' Mills Battleground interpretive sign at the 1864 Civil War battlefield in Cleveland County, Arkansas

Battlefield / Military Site

Marks' Mills Battleground State Park

New Edinburg, AR

Marks' Mills Battleground State Park preserves part of the site of the April 25, 1864 Action at Marks' Mills in present-day Cleveland County, Arkansas. The Confederate ambush of a Union supply train under Lieutenant Colonel Francis M. Drake produced approximately 1,500 Union casualties to 293 Confederate, contributed to General Frederick Steele's withdrawal from Camden, and is part of the Camden Expedition Sites National Historic Landmark.

$ All Ages Family: High

North Little Rock — 1

Art Deco facade of the 1930 Ole Main building of North Little Rock High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Museum / Historical Site

North Little Rock High School — Ole Main

North Little Rock, AR

North Little Rock High School's West Campus, originally known as Ole Main, was completed in 1930 and designed by Little Rock architect George R. Mann in an Art-Deco style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1993, the building hosted high school students until 2015 and now sits largely vacant while the district plans its renovation as a Center of Excellence charter school.

$ All Ages Family: High

Oxford — 1

Aerial survey view of Old Church House and Cemetery near Oxford

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Old Church House and Cemetery near Oxford

Oxford, AR

Oxford is an Izard County, Arkansas community settled in the mid-nineteenth century around Wiley Croom's cotton mill and grist mill. It was incorporated in 1945. The Encyclopedia of Arkansas entry for Oxford documents Cumberland Presbyterian (1870), Methodist, and Baptist (1937) churches but no vigilante witch-hanging history of the type described in the Shadowlands narrative.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Paragould — 1

Historic Collins Theatre facade with marquee and red brick exterior in downtown Paragould, Arkansas, a restored 1925 performing arts venue

Theater / Performance Venue

Collins Theater

Paragould, AR

The Capitol Theatre opened on West Emerson Street in Paragould on October 25, 1925, built by Bertig Realty Co. with John A. Collins as initial manager. The Collins family operated the venue across six decades until 1986, when they deeded it to the Greene County Fine Arts Council. Renamed the Collins Theatre and restored beginning in 1991, it now operates as northeast Arkansas's principal community performing arts venue.

$$ All Ages Family: High

Piggott — 1

The Clay County Courthouse Eastern District on Courthouse Square in Piggott, Arkansas, built 1966-1967

Museum / Historical Site

Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District (Piggott)

Piggott, AR

The Clay County Courthouse, Eastern District is located on Courthouse Square in the center of Piggott, Arkansas. The current courthouse was built in 1966-1967 to a design by Donnellan & Porterfield, replacing an 1890s Romanesque courthouse designed by Charles L. Thompson. Piggott became the Eastern District seat of Clay County in 1891, when an election shifted the seat from Boydsville.

$ All Ages Family: High

Prairie Grove — 1

Aerial survey view of Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park (Borden House)

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Battlefield / Military Site

Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park (Borden House)

Prairie Grove, AR

The Battle of Prairie Grove (December 7, 1862) produced nearly 2,700 casualties as Union General James Blunt and Confederate General Thomas Hindman fought to a bloody standstill across Washington County farms. The Borden family farmhouse stood at the center of the worst fighting; the family returned to find hundreds of bodies stacked in their yard. Confederate forces withdrew that night and never mounted another major offensive in northwest Arkansas.

$ All Ages Family: Moderate

Russellville — 1

Museum / Historical Site

Witherspoon Hall — Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, AR

Witherspoon Hall houses the Department of Music at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas. The hall is named for Gene Chief Witherspoon, who served as director of bands at the university from 1950 to 1979, and contains practice rooms, classrooms, and an auditorium recently renovated by the university.

$ All Ages with restrictions Family: High

Scott — 1

Aerial survey view of Mama Lou's Bridge (Wolf Bayou Bridge)

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Outdoor / Natural Site

Mama Lou's Bridge (Wolf Bayou Bridge)

Scott, AR

Mama Lou's Bridge is the local name for a crossing of Wolf Bayou on Old Highway 30 north of Scott, in Pulaski County, Arkansas. The original bridge that gave rise to the legend was replaced in 2005. The area around Scott is a historic farming community east of Little Rock along the Arkansas River bottomlands.

$ All Ages Family: Low

Vilonia — 1

Aerial survey view of Cypress Valley Cemetery

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Cemetery / Burial Ground

Cypress Valley Cemetery

Vilonia, AR

Cypress Valley Cemetery is located just south of Vilonia in Faulkner County, Arkansas, at 114-124 Stanley Road. The burial ground serves multiple generations of families from the surrounding rural community, with documented graves dating from the 19th century. Both Arkansas Gravestones and BillionGraves catalog the cemetery as part of Faulkner County's preservation record.

$ All Ages Family: High

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