LEETOWN - Arkansas
N 36° 26.416 W 094° 03.134
15S E 405693 N 4033296
Leetown Civil War Ghost Town, Arkansas
Waymark Code: WM3JXE
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2008
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Leetown was one of the earliest settlements in Northwest Arkansas. The town was built in the middle of a plateau bordered by Pea Vine Ridge to the north and the Little Sugar Creek to the south.
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Founded in the 1840s by John W. Lee, a farmer from Kentucky. It had fifteen or twenty houses, frame and log, blacksmith shop, Masonic Hall, church, school and 2 stores.
On March 7, 1862 the Federal battleline was only a half-mile north of Leetown. All the houses within three miles of the field were taken for hospitals.
Leetown was devastated by the Civil War battle. The only remains are a grave of Robert Braden, born in 1864 and died in 1866.
So make it a part of your waymarking stops of this great battlefield.
As always, have fun, be safe and
HAPPY..........................................WAYMARKING