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Marshall is the largest city in and county seat of Searcy County. It is located in the Ozarks at the foot of the Boston Mountain Range 10.5 mi (16.9 km) south of America's first National River, the Buffalo National River. Marshall serves as a hub for area tourism including camping, floating, hiking, bicycling and Dark Sky viewing.
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This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted May 27, 2022.
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The Franklin Desha House is a historic house in Desha, Arkansas. It is a single-story double-pen dogtrot house, with a side gable roof and a projecting gabled roof at the center of its main facade. Built in 1861, the house is important for as one of the older houses in Independence County, and for its association with the Desha and Searcy families, both important to the history of Arkansas. Franklin Desha was the son of Robert Desha, who settled Helena, and nephew of Benjamin Desha, for whom Desha County is named. He married Elizabeth Searcy, the daughter of Richard Searcy, a lawyer and judge for whom Searcy and Searcy County are named. Desha, a veteran of the Mexican–American War, built this house in 1861, and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. This property was the site of a Confederate encampment in 1863.
The Searcy County Courthouse is located on Courthouse Square in Marshall, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone structure, with a hip roof. The walls are fashioned out of rustically cut native sandstone, and it is topped by a metal hip roof with widely overhanging eaves. The front entrance is sheltered by a single-story porch supported by cast stone columns. The courthouse, the third for Searcy since its incorporation in 1838, was built in 1889 on the site of the second courthouse, which was destroyed by fire. The first courthouse was in Lebanon, about 6 miles (9.7 km) to the west, before being moved to Marshall in 1855.
The Greene Thomas House is a historic house in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It is located north of Leslie, on the west side of County Road 74 south of its junction with County Road 55. It is a single-story stone structure, fashioned out of smooth rounded creek stones. It has a front-facing gable roof with an extended gable supported by large brackets, and a porch with a similar gable, supported by sloping square wooden columns. Built in 1930, it is a fine regional example of Craftsman style architecture in a rural context.
The Willmering Tourist Cabins Historic District encompasses a historic tourist accommodation on United States Route 65 in central northern Searcy County, Arkansas, just south of the Buffalo National River. Located behind the Silver Hill Float Service on the west side of the highway stand six stone and timber cabins, with large standstone blocks and plank doors on the fronts, and shed roofs obscured by parapets. Built in 1946 by Harry Willmering, these vernacular structures are representative of tourist accommodations built in the period after World War II to cater to the automobile-based vacationing public.
The Buffalo River Bridge was a historic bridge, carrying Arkansas Highway 7 across the Buffalo River in northeastern Newton County, Arkansas. It was located in the Buffalo National River, managed by the National Park Service. It was an unusual Pennsylvania through truss, with a center span of 160 feet (49 m) and a total structure length of 375 feet (114 m). The central truss was flanked at the ends by eight-panel Warren trusses. The bridge was built in 1931 by a Kansas contractor under contract to the state highway department. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, it was one of four known Pennsylvania through trusses in the state. It was delisted in 2022 following demolition that began in 2021.
Highway 36 is a state highway in Central Arkansas. The highway begins at U.S. Highway 64 (US 64) at Hamlet and runs east through several small communities to Searcy, where it serves as the Beebe-Capps Expressway, a major crosstown arterial roadway. Following a discontinuity at US 64/US 67/US 167, the highway continues east to Kensett as Wilbur D. Mills Avenue before state maintenance ends at the small community of Georgetown. This highway is maintained by the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT).
The Oak Hill School House is a historic school building at 151 Little Oak Hill Road in rural Searcy County, Arkansas, southwest of Marshall, Arkansas. It is a single-story stone structure, with a stone foundation, and a gabled roof maode of corrugated metal. A gabled porch shelters the main entrance at the center of the north facade, supported by square posts. The school was built about 1934 on the site of a wood-frame school built in 1910, and served the area community until the mid-1950s. It continues to serve the area community as a gathering place for social events and religious services.
References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- 1 2 "Cultural Affiliation Statement, Buffalo National River" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
- ↑ "Summary description of Calf Creek site". Arkansas Preservation. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
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