LEETOWN - Arkansas - Ghost Towns on Waymarking.com

Leetown was one of the earliest settlements in Northwest Arkansas. The town was built in the middle of a plateau bordered by Pea Vine Ridge to the north and the Little Sugar Creek to the south.
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Founded in the 1840s by John W. Lee, a farmer from Kentucky. It had fifteen or twenty houses, frame and log, blacksmith shop, Masonic Hall, church, school and 2 stores.

On March 7, 1862 the Federal battleline was only a half-mile north of Leetown. All the houses within three miles of the field were taken for hospitals.

Leetown was devastated by the Civil War battle. The only remains are a grave of Robert Braden, born in 1864 and died in 1866.

So make it a part of your waymarking stops of this great battlefield.

As always, have fun, be safe and

HAPPY..........................................WAYMARKING

Reason for Abandonment: Human Disaster Date Abandoned: 01/01/1881 Related Web Page: [Web Link]

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