April 21, 2010

To help finance the Arkansas Centennial celebration in 1936, the Arkansas congressional delegation secured a federal grant of $75,000, of which $10,000 was used in the production and placement of 143 cast-iron markers at historic sites throughout the state. Many of those markers, including this one located at the early settlement of Cadron (Faulkner County), are still standing.

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