The Confederates Attack Fort Curtis

Historical marker location:

702 Porter Street, Helena, Arkansas

( Marker is on Columbia Street south of Perry Street (Business U.S. 49), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2013

Arkansas was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which was the largest land acquisition in U.S. history, and the state was later admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836.