The Arkansas State Memorial is located approximately .1 mile south of Old
Graveyard Road on Confederate Avenue. The memorial was erected in 1954 by McNeel Company
of Marietta, GA and dedicated on August 2, 1954. The cost of $50,000 was appropriated by
the State of Arkansas. Fabricated of Mount Airy North Carolina Marble it bears the
inscription:
"To the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, a part of a
nation divided by
the sword and reunited at the altar of faith."
