Dwight Mission Monument

Dwight Mission marker, near Russellville (Pope County); photo taken December 5, 1956.

stone marker saying "On this site August 25, 1820 Reverend Cephas Washburn founded Dwight Mission for the Cherokee Indians the first protestant school in Arkansas"

Courtesy of the Arkansas State Archives

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