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The 4,300-acre (17 km 2) Pea Ridge National Military Park was created by an act of Congress in 1956 to preserve the battlefield of the 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge. It was dedicated as a national park during the American Civil War Centennial in 1963. [5] In 1956, the Arkansas congressional delegation proposed legislation to make Pea Ridge a ...
Elkhorn Tavern is a two-story, wood-frame structure that served as a physical center for the American Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, also known as the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern, which was fought on March 7 and March 8, 1862, approximately five miles east of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, located in the northeastern Benton County, Arkansas.
The Springfield to Fayetteville Road-Elkhorn Tavern Segment is a section of historic 19th-century roadway in Pea Ridge National Military Park in northwestern Arkansas.It is a dirt road, about 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 18 to 20 feet (5.5 to 6.1 m) wide, that was built in 1835.
The battlefield at Pea Ridge is now Pea Ridge National Military Park, founded in 1956, one of the best-preserved civil war battlefields. A reconstruction of Elkhorn Tavern, scene of the heaviest fighting, stands at the original location. The park also includes a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) section of the Trail of Tears. [56]
Aug. 9—The victory at Pea Ridge National Military Park is complete. Last week, the Conservation Fund donated the 140-acre Green Homestead in Benton County, Arkansas, to the National Park Service ...
Aug. 4—The Conservation Fund announced this week that it will donate the 140-acre Green Homestead in Benton County, Arkansas, to Pea Ridge National Military Park. In an announcement, the ...
Pea Ridge is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.The name Pea Ridge is derived from a combination of the physical location of the original settlement of the town, across the crest of a ridge of the Ozark Mountains, and for the hog peanuts or turkey peas that had been originally cultivated by Native American tribes centuries before European settlement, which later helped to provide ...
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