
Sesquicentennial "Trail of the Centuries"
Posted by:
YoSam.
N 36° 24.087 W 094° 04.351
15S E 403827 N 4029010
Quick Description: Todays US-62 was here since 800 AD, but not under that name.
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 7/2/2008 9:03:08 AM
Waymark Code: WM43J9
Views: 27
Long Description:Marker Erected by: Benton County Sesquicentennial, and Arkansas Sesquicentennial.
Date Merker Erected: 1986.
County of Marker: Benton County.
Location of Marker: US-62, just N. of Avoca.
Marker Text:
Benton
County
1836
SESQUICENTENNIAL
"TRAIL OF THE CENTURIES"
800 AD .......Trace of the Rock People
1808 .........Osage Boundary
1815 .........Lawrence County
1827-28 ......Lovely County
1838 .........Trail of Tears
1840 .........Trott's Stand
1858 .........Old Wire Road
1858-61 ......Butterfield Stage Route
1861 .........Troop Trails
1862 .........Civil War Earth Works
1882 .........St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
1896 .........Birthplace of Field Kindley, W.W. I Ace
1913 .........Coin Harvey's Ozark Trail
1926 .........U.S. Highway 62
1956 .........Poet Edsel Ford's "Sunday Creek"