The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lee Creek Road Segment is a historic stretch of road in
Crawford County, Arkansas
Crawford County is a County (United States), county located in the Ozarks region of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the population was 61,948, making it the 12th-most populous of Arkansas's 75 counti ...
. It is a segment of
Lee Creek Road, which diverges from
Arkansas Highway 220
Arkansas Highway 220 is a designation for two state highways in west Arkansas. The southern segment of runs from Oklahoma State Highway 101 near Uniontown to AR 59. A northern segment of runs from AR 59 north to AR 170 in Devil's Den State ...
north of
Cedarville. This road section appears to closely follow the original alignment of the main road in the region in 1839, which connected
Fayetteville and
Van Buren
Martin Van Buren ( ; nl, Maarten van Buren; ; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he ...
. This road was used by the
Butterfield Overland Mail
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service i ...
service between 1858 and 1861. It is a gravel roadway about wide, with several deeply-cut sections.
The road was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2009.
See also
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References
Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Buildings and structures completed in 1858
Transportation in Crawford County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Crawford County, Arkansas
Butterfield Overland Mail in Arkansas
1858 establishments in Arkansas
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