calsfoundation@cals.org
September 22, 2004
A Baxter County segment of the Fort Smith to Jackson Road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Fort Smith to Jackson Road was one of several military roads the U.S. Congress funded during the 1830s to improve transportation in territorial Arkansas. The John Benge detachment of Cherokee traveled in 1838 during the Trail of Tears over the Baxter County segment.