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CITY. TOWN STATE ~xairieGrove VICINITY OF 7,rl'ransas LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGTSTRY OF DEEOqEfC Washinqton County Comt!?ouse STREET & hUMBER Colleqe Avenue and East Center Street CITY. TOWN STATE Pavptt~vi1 le Arkansas
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-- I DESCRIBE TF!.E PRFSEVT AND QRLGINAL [IF Kr4Gb9j*r i PHYSICAL APPEA4AhCE I 'i3e Borden-tiall House Ts a one-and-one-half s'ory aind one-le-~elsddition frame atncture clad in an 1880's skin. It is located less 33 yar3; east of I Prairie Grove aattlefield Park. i The jlan has a central hallway, one raom an oither side. Th? exterior end, cnt sandstone chimneys have been removed but can be located.
The weather-board-clad balloon frame bnildzng and t3e ell rest on a layed atone foundation. The building is rapped by double-pitched roofs supported Sy round rafters. The roof was first cover4 in shingles, then asphalt shingles and now partially by tax paper,
The front facade faces north across the valley of the Illinois Creek. The first level of this facade contains five bays. The cectral Say consists of a portico and a stylized triangular-pedimented entrance door with sidelights. The portico is covered by a half-hipped mof, decorat& with lattice work at the eave and supported by turned columns. The four bys that complete the first level of the north facade contain double-hung, six-pane windows trimmed above with the stylized triangular pediment dsnstsated above the entrance door. This same trim was used on the interior 05 these windows. The half level above on the nortll facade contains three domes windows. The end dormers contain double-hung, six-pane sash. The central dormer - is larger and is framed for a door, inzicating a different type portico existed because the present portico roof half covers the door 02eninq.
Further reinEorcing the symmetrical nature of the house are the identical east anZ west.facades of the.main block. On the lower level 05 both facades are double-hung, six-pane windows.' On the upser level two double- hung, six-pane windows £.lank the chimney. ... .,.,.
Rear doers exist inthelow=-roomsofthe main block. (All doors were four panelled). The door in the east xoom enters the two-room addition which was heated by a back-to-back brick fireplace.
The central hallway had a rear door and contained the open-s*ing stairs to the half level. The stairs are "L" shaped, with W~DZB~S,turned newel, shaped handrail and plain balusters.
The fireplace mantels were carved wood with rectangular openings. Eoth manteis contained pilasters and entablatures, bed mouldings a~d-mantel shelves. The west mantel had a mouLdea frieze, whereas the east mantel was plain. - ... . .- # '; . . I.. Paper and basebo~-d covered the plaster on wood lath sr3lls of the lower 500111s of the main block. The ceilings wexe plssterer??also, and the floors were wood supported by log joists. Wall and floor slxf aces in the upper lev31 were boarded and papered. L ;c,rn No lQ-300a rl;~, 13 74:
UNITt-.D S1'4, 1 i:5 E)t!':\R1 hltNT OF 1 Hi: I 'L 1 i-.-.1 :!r%T?ONAL ?,SZ1'SEX OF WSTGR1C PL4CES XNfENTt3X~!-- NOMS[NI~TIG~-7s Rhrl The Borden-tlali Youse is in a deteriorating condition. Among the immediate problems are a poor roof, faller! chin~eys,rotting foundations and porches, I water damage from windows, etc. Aceion must be taken hurridly to prevent the loss of this very significant building and site. I AREAS OF S1GNIFlCAVCE -- CHECK AND 3USTIn QE:C'JV _PRCHEOCUGY .P?E:lIST.2ilIC -COivl'dUNlTY PLAhNiflG _.LAYDSCAPE ARCHkTECiL St JRCFEOLOGY-HISTOAIC -CONSERVATlClN - .MV! 4G;FICULlURE -ECONOMIES ..,LIT€ RATUPE ARCHITECT9'J;IE -EDUCATION x MILIT~RY ART -ENGINEERING , .MUSIC -COMMEPCE _EXPLORATION,SETTLEMEMT -PfilLOSOPHY - _COMMUNlCATlONS -INDUSTRY -.POLITICS/GOVERNGliEkT -1 NVENTIQN , . -. BUILDERIARCH ITECT DATES December 7, 1552 The Battle - The Borden House The surrounding land and the Borden House cannot be separated. The Confederate right flank was anchored around the Borden House and orchard where the main fighting of the Prairie Gmve battle took place. Briefly stated, General Herron attacked the Conzederate right flank near noon and it was not until 4-00 that General Blunt came on the field to unite the Union forces, which then fought together until 7:OO in the evening. Con- sequently, I intend to confine this report only to those witnessed accounts which took place on the Confederate right flank in and around the Borden House. I believe that these reports, £ram bth Korth and South, will prove how important this site is to the Prairie Grove Eattlefield Park and that the existing Borden House and orchard grand must be saved as an original historical landmark intimately identified with the main events uhich took place on that Sunday, December 7, 1862. -- - .. .- - .- . . General Windman C.S.A. "The shape of the hill detemined the line of battle, which was nearly in the fom .of a horseshoe. " . tfien the Con£ederate .Army had drawn a Line of . battle around the hilltop village of Prairie Grove they were already too late to egTage General Herron's Union command alone as .had been desiped ... 'enera1 Marmaduke was falling back before the Union infmtry, and Gemral Shoup had pl.ac.ed his ConEderate division in position to xeet the expected attack. He had with admirdle judgement selected a strong defensive position upon the brow of a densely wooded hill commanding the Cane Hill and Fzyetteville road and within artillery range of the ford of Illinois Creek." (Foote) Prentiss 1888 "The lines of battle seemea very short, the Confederate front embraced, in general terms, between the Hall House (Eorden House) and the Morton House. East of the former and west sf the latter the battle seemed to fray out so to speak, and we could find no tradition or landmark. *' kccarding to the Arkansas History Comission, "The most severe fighting of the battle took place about the Borden House and orchard. " General Herron reported more tha? 300 dead in less than two acres of the slopes about this house. Cccu?ying the ricpht flank of the Confederate Amy, the Borden House saw the start of the battle, as this flank successfully held the orchard then occupied by an a5andoned Confederate battsry of four pieces which baited the initial attacks of General Herron. Z*ne following records will prove this, beyond a doubt, by continually referring to the one obvicus landmark in this area -- the existing Borden House. FO;.. No 13-3W3 !;.e.; 10-76) LYlTtU$2' '\;!:5 l)kPrIKTMEY? ilk 'i HI. IhTk,KIOR ~PSUSE ONLY 1 NATIONAL PAPK SERUCi ! 1 ~ECEIVED ATl0KAL 33G1SEB OF KSTBB'IC BMGES 7's lor\.7's . EXTERED INVEN'TGX K -- MOPiIlPdilTI93X FCaRM CUNTl NU ASION SHEET ITEM NUhlBER 8 PAGE 1 General Hesron U.S.A. In the Official. Records: Volume 22, Report #14, Ge3eral Rerron reports on Decenber 19, 1862: "...when within 100 yards sf the ridge, the 20th Wisconsin and the 19th lowa Infantry were ordered to charge a battery placed near a fam house (Borden House) , on the edge of the hill. The charge was made in gallant style, the enemy driven back, and the battery taken, but the ground could not be held ...,Regiment after regiment of infantry was hurled upon the, and they were compelled to fall back." Colonel Ome 94th Illinois, U.S.A. Tn this same volume of the Official Records, Report $31, written on Decenber 10,1062 by Colonel Ome of the 94th Illinois: "Meanwhile the 19th Iowa had received and returned tho, fire of the enemy and now advanced steadily..up -khe.hill to the left of the white house (Borden House), 2nd across the orchard lsack of the house to a fence, behind which the enemy in greatly superiar force were concealed. At it approached, the enemy rose u? and . poured ir. a mst severe and destructive fire upon it, and the 20th Wisconsin having already commenced to fall back in disorder, the 19th lowa was unable t;o hold its position, and was compelled to fall back across the orchard, where Lieutenant Colonel McFarland fell shot through the body. Major D. Kent then took command ar.d rallied a portion of his men, who had fallen back to the right of the battery, near the position of the 94th Xllinois," Major Kent 19th Iowa, U.S.A. In the sme volume 05 tke ~fficaIRecords,Report $33, written Decexber loth, 1862 by Major Kent, 19th kwz, who describes thjs charge:". . .The skirmishers advanced under a heavy fire to a cornfield to the right of Battery E, 1st Missouri Artillary, and were ordered to hold it at all hazards vrhieh was done, until ordered to fall back and form in line of battle. The regiment was then ordered to advance to the left of the white house [Borden House). on the hill to support the 20th Wisconsin which was hotly engaged. The 19th Iowa led by Lieutenant Colonel McFarland advanced up the hill steadily and across the orchard back of the house (B0rden.l) when the 20th Wisconsin gzve way. The 10th still advanced to the fence adjoining the tmd, when the enemy, concealed, arose to their feet, three regiments deep, pouring a destructive Fire on us from three sides, which caused the regiment to caver and fall back to the battery, on the left of the road leading up the hill, Lieutenant Colonel McFarland here fell, shot through the hdy. I then took command and rallied what was left of the regiment, as the regiment met with a severe loss in the charge ...-Cclonel Ome then rode up anci ordered Captain ~~derickto fall in and rally with the ILlinuis he led by * 34thm which did, Colonel Orme in person, driving the enmy back with great slaughter, and holding their position until ordered to fall back and reform." Form Yo '9-3aOa !:hv 10-711 LehITi-,l>5.1 .A : 1-5 I)tP~2KTXIth1'Wt 7 !'L Ih?I-KIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FTATIONAL 'fiEG!S=R OF H3TCX;tlC PLACES IPJVXNTDX Y -- NOMiNtl'E3X YORM CO:VTI NUATION SPEET ITEM NUMBER e T&ci 2 Major Thompson, 20th Io*da, U.S.A. Major W. C, T?mmpsonr 20th Iowa, in a letter datzd DecemSer 10, 1862, hrote: "We drove them from their psition and was still fighting near a fence, and an empty house (Borden House) stod away abut twenty ~3rd~from us. At last 1 heard some of the boys say,'For God's sake, Major, get off your horse or you will be killed?', for they were shooting at me out of the house and a few of the cowards had sneaked into the hause (Earden) and had shot often at me and had missed me. gut just: at sundown and the very last: round they shot at us, one of the cowardly cusses raised the window and took a good aim and I was hit that time...." From this graphic description and from statements by other soldiers, we may conclude that the Borden House survived the heavy infantry cumbat and the artillery fire of that day. Captain Pittman (C,S.A.), in an interview around 1896 relates:"... On the 7th' after the enemy had been driven to sheltex behind his artillery aad the sun h3d goce down in a cloud of sulphurous smoke, the dusk of evening was corning on, our regiment was moved from the corner of the Borden orchard where we were formed after.the last charge, and where the hardest fight of the day bad occurred, to a point in the wods 150 yards to the south and west where we were given permission to 'lie down arms'." THE BURIAL TRENCHES In the Prentiss Report of 1888, mention is made of his companion, the Conmissioner, who was a Union veteran and witness of the Prairie Grove battle. The Commissioner relates:"...The next day we went to the fie12 and saw the burial details putting the dead in trenches. The piles of dead where the battery was fought over near the Hall House (Barden House], were frightful. The ground was muddy with blood." In the Prentiss report of 1888 there is also included the description given by another Union veteran, the Captain, who relates: "Nut far from the house (Borden House) were depressions in the ground, and piles of gravelly and barren earth covered with green mould. These mark the trenches where the Union dead were buried and from whence their poor bones were afterward removed. There were other trenches in the orchard now enclosed.-.All this ground was fought over, the combatants being generally ti13 troops or Herron's command and the Arkansans. .Frost's Missourians, who in the original Confederate plan of battle were plzced On this flank, were soon sent to the Confederate left." THE 34th Arkansas, C.S.A., AT THE BATTLE 07 PPAIRIE GIiOVE v Flashback 1952 * "...These Washineon County men, who hzd been drilling for months at Spadra and Mazzard Prairie, down on the Arkansas Rives, knew where they were ;J~,T, 1 ',:\.3@9a ~:ec 18,741 1, h!ll:[) ST.41 k3 U!:!' \i C3iUTI NUATlON SHEET ITEM hUhIBfF1 8 PAGE :: going when they narckid out cf Van Buren on the 3rd of December. They recognized the distarA silhouette of the Soston Mountains. But they could hudLy have forseen that the battle ;qhicA they anticipated muld occur ;.;i tan sight and socnd of their homes -- with their own kin huddled in cellars or ministering to the wounded. The 34th Arkansas fought and died on home grounds -- Crawford% Prairie, the Morton Earn, the Borden orchard..,. II The Camndinq Generals Hindman, Herron, and Blunt reported 338 killed and 1,630 wounded in action, for a total of 2,568 men. The high loss of 10% of the troops engaged stands as an exception to most Civil War battles, and indicates the severity of the infantry combat here and of the signifi- cant part which artillery had in this battle. The! records show that axound 600 of the wounasd subsequently died. "Losses in killed, wounded, and missins total& 1,317 for the Confederates and 1,251 for the Federals. Of the lakter only 333 were from Blunt's Command indic-F -potion of the conflict Berron's men had borne. " Tne Records show that of The counted wonnded, 430 died in the Amy hospital at ~ayetteville, 150 in the churches an3 homes nf Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, and others along the Cave Creek and Telegraph Road. In the Prentiss report of 1888 a description of the baktle was given by Mrs. Staples, who relates her personal view of the fight on the Confederate left flank around the tqorton House. Prentiss wrote that, "The mistress of the mansion now is Mrs. Staples, nee' Mortontwho was a young woman at the time 05 the fiqht. The storm of hattle, drif tin9 from the east end of the ridge to the westward, drove the women and children to the Morton House, where they took refuge in 2 sl-tallow cellar which Mrs, Staples shows to visitors. The incident most vivid in her mind was coming up from the cellar to get some garments to.cover the children who were suffering from cold." Yet, there is a copy of a typed manuscript in the Rare Documents file of t3e Axkansas History Commission in Little Rack entikled, --Personal Recollections OF the Battle of prairie Grove, andl is thoughtto have been written by lks. Staples around 1895. It: reads, "Early in the day the bsttle commenced on the mrden farm east of the grove, lasting until sunset, wiading up on the Morton farm One mile west. The families were ordered wpst to the first cellar, which was Morton's. Those in the cellar during the battle were N.3. and J.F. Morton, Ira. Mort~n,I.?mm, D. Rogers, wife and threc children, A. Borden, wif e and five children, Eliza Borden , Dr. Rogers, wife and two children. hTe all remained in the cellar till dark, but f went into the house ssveral times to get victuals acd some bedclothes 2nd wraps for the children ....Mother shocking affair was hel2ing to bury m. Borden, a brother of A. BoPben, who was brutally killed in the Pittman lane. " From this statement IGT can easily infer that the Confezerates had =rvr '.o ';. 330a 11; ?lt !:\;PTtU ST4'11.5 L>kl'.I!?T;\l'tNT OF Ttlk I5TI.I: I1.!I: NATIONAL P/iAi<. SERVICE CC)NTt NUATION SHEET ITEM h.rclhl3E.3 8 PAGE 4 placed their sharpshooters in the Borden Zouse to the east w:?ich offered an excellent view of the initial attacks of the Union .iirmy of General Herran's command. It is also easy to imagine sharpshooters occu3ying the Borden cellar, which was protected from shot and shell- By removing some of the stacked stones of the founclation located in the northeast corner of the house they could have created a small, concealed position in the center of combat. They told the Borden family to get out of their house. In the Prenkiss report of 1888, this journalist: begins his i~terviewaround Prairie Grove by relating that, "Morning cane, chill, cloudy and for- bidding. We walked along the business street, what may be called the Post Office street, in search of Con£ederate 'contemporaries' who could speak of the Prairie Grave battle from observation. There were several of them, all belonging that day ta Fagan's Arkansas Brigade which held the Confederate right. They thought tha Confederate guns, over which the savage fight occurred at the white house {Rarden i.louse1, belonged to Blocher' s Arkansas Battery. They spoke of the spot where the dead men were piled thickest, as the place where the horses were killed* his refers to the Captain's story in the next ferr paragraphs.) "...By general consent, Mr. Bill Rogers, who lived on the edge of the ridge and who, with his family connections, owned a large portion of the field, they thought .the best guide procurable, and Mr. Rogers kkes foW.d later in the morning and obligingly mounted his mcPe and rode over the field. 'r;e went first to the white house IBorden House) on the right of the Confederate line, overlooking the ford where the road from Fayetteville crosses. From near this house (Borden House) the Confederate artillery opened on Hexron's troops when crossing, an3 were replied to first by Bzc:!haf's Battery. Here the 20th Wisconsin and the 19th Iowa made the first chzrge of the day, carrying the ridge, only to be forced back. " The Captain's story - 1888. "...We came to a stream (it was the Illinbis Creek1 and we moved along the bank down the stream ane formed in line ... The batteries cancluded their dispute for a time; the non were wakened and stood up in line, and then moved tw~ardit. (The physical condition of the men refers to the forced march of General Hexron's men of 110 miles from their camp near Springfield, Missouri,) And the fire fron the guns on the crest, and the musketry fire, seemed to grow thlcker and louder as r*~neared It. I saw a white house(mrden House) on tta crest and to our right. We came to thd foot of the ridge, the slope c3~reredwith aWtangle of vines and bushes and trees. Buried in this for a few morr.ents, we were sheltered as if we had gone into a fortress. (This refers to a natural bench in the hill below the Borden House.) We came out near the cres2, F?,rin T,o '&?i10a t{eu 10 7Jr t. .\? =ITATI-.S !>f.P:\U'I ',I O!YTllk I h-Fl*,Ri<>!-!, 'FOR NPS USE ONLY T NATEONAL PA,?< SERVICE SECEIVEP I i'y7hTQiL,4L XKGY SX2 SFSi'f STQXIC PLACES ' r-\'- /DATE ENTERED a IP~T~sA~1 GXY --NOMIX--4?!?ON FORM COhl~lNUAT~ON SHEET ITEM NUMB;? 8 PAGES and :bere was a newly-built rail fence, m.d there, a few feet off, so that t;e looking into their muzzles, were the guns, and nearby the horses starding quietly attached to the caissons. Tho guns which had been belching flame and smoke all norning stood there still and cold, and the horses as if waiting for us. We could have taken the horses away, but some officer called out to 'shmt the horses.9en and officers called out in reply, 'save the horses."gain the-senseless order was repeated and this time obeyed. The be.mtifnl horses -;ere piled in a bldy heap, and the men swarmed over and around the quns and a great cheer went up." "Two minutes elapsed, the last stragglers were working their way out of the brush and up to the crowd about the guns, when dicipline asserted itself, th5 bkoken mass was formed in Line and began to sweeg u2 the crest and over it, and down the farther slope, and coming to another rise, we saw five gray lines, one behifid the other, and they blazed, one after the other, down in our faces. " "The impeb~sof the charge lasted until the regiment reached a ravine at the feet, so to speak of the enany. Bere we stood and fired up the slope and a >ail of bullets answering smiting our line, and then the men lay down acd fixed as they had been taught to do....there were no more men alive an? unwounded in the ravine by that time. I passed the battery we had tak5n. The guns stood as we had Left thm." Prerltiss continl.~oshis observations in the vicinity of this battery: "The white house 05 today is a neat cottage with dormer windows, and is occupied by a family named Fall, newcomers to the country. (Courthouse records indicat that they were in the Borden House in this year 1888, the time of this xeport.) The inclosure shut the house seem recent. (Probbly rdeled by the previous owner, Fx. W. W. Blanton who is listed in the Washington County Courthouse Record Books G2-177 and G2-202 purchasins the house and land in the year 1881.1 To the east, or in the rear of the houser is a young orchard, taking the place of the old orchard which grew therc at the time of the battle, and where Lieutenant Colonel McFarland of the 19th Iowa, ...was killed ....To the southward, or nearer the sumnit of the ridge, much of fie timcr has been cut away, To the west of the I-..owe (Park property) and immediately arolrnd it there seems to have been Eer? changes except those m8de by the hand oC na tuxe. The trces heve grown, a change which, occurrinq on ali these forested battlefields, alters their appearance more that anything man has done; hut there would be na difficulty, we shouid think, ir. a veteran of the 20th Wisconsin,' or 19th Iowa, ow 37th Illinois, cr 26th Indiana, from finding again the RCWP . . - .'I Fsm h 1;. 32- 14ev IG i4 l: h!! i.3 51.4 t1:.S UtP.4X I IXithT CONTl NUATIOW SHEET ITEM NUkqBER 9 PAGE 6 I have confined the accounts oE the Prairie Grove battle to the Confederate right flaxk, which is located in and around the Barden House and orchard and where the burial trenches were excavated. The witnesses tell the story of the battle of Prairie Grove and 1 do not think that we can improve upn their description. iorn fro 1g 300a 69: :U-74) --+- I-'\ 1TtU STAT I-,S I$,P::KTbl tYl UI- TI-fi-.I ;\T' i:iI!:: 7 FL'ATEOVAL PASK SERVICE RECEIVED I! i,:iT!ESNAt REG1;SEX I3F 'XISTORIC 3ZgLCE5 ! EN?: 2: IXJENTCRY -- XU3IINATON FGRbI DATE 3 C3NTINUATlON SHEET ITEM NClrLlaEQ 3 PAGE 7 Blunt's Attack Center Herron ' s .A.tt ack (Confederate left flank) (Cbnfedera-e right flank] Archihnld . . Sorden House CC?JTi NUATtON SHEET ITEM NUMaER 8 PAGE 8 __- v-=- P LXK OT THE BITT L-E. , blo~con[louse Borden House Confederate left flank Confederate right f 1 ank ;or; NO 1:) 3~~a !&:v 13--/A1 IT!:t, 51',%TESDkP.iKTlz.lEX1- Tt-It: I KTk.Ii10R ]F~RN?S i;SE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERV!CE 1 I 17?7LONA SZGISTZB OF FE3TOXIC PLACES I ,DATE ENTERED IXTJEXTCiX ;lE -- -0-MINAXC3X FORM ---+ - CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 3 PAGE g $3-m No la-1UO= [Lev 10.741 b.\17tLj 3-;..\ 1 ;-5DtP;2K7 Xlth \rOlr -" .k. ikTS-.KlCIK :.i.lTIC)NAL PARK SEEViCS CONTI NUAflON SHEtT LTEM NUMBER 8 PAGE 10 Herron ' s AttacL of the Confederate Right Flank * A characteristic of the Union charges is that they were disjointed and made in detachments of insufficient strength. * k heniny reliance on a strong and wll s.erved artillery ssved the Union forces from disaster a$ Prairie Grvve. - :'erguson, Jok? L, .Qk&nsas and the Civil Nzr. Little ~ock,W:cansas;Pianeer Press, 196a. Jphnson, Robet U. and Clarence Clough, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, V01. 111, New York: The Century Conpany, laad. ! Ler;l.!ce, W. 3. , ed, " 2attle of Prairie Grovo. " Wx.Rinqtor. Comty Fristerical Society i Flashback, V91. 11, #6 (Decsmber, 1952) , and Vol.XII f4, 1362) . Vatrl;:?t, Elsa. "Diary o5an Unknown Soldier." Arkansas Kisbrical Quarterly, Vol. I UT!n PEFERENCES I I 1 ~/1,51 1-1 13,918,21~,5,01 iIIIIIIIIII!!IrI I ZONE EASTJMG NQRTM1NG ZONE EASTING NaRTHlNG cwu 1-J ~L_IIII171III VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COW NTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVEFILAPPING STATE OA COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE CODE COUNTY CODE I STATE CODE CO~NW CODE Ii NAME /TITLE University of Arkansas Patrick Horan and Stephen E. Courtney/Department of Architecture ORGANIZATION OAT E Fdjted by Dianna Kirk. Arkansas Historic Preservation Proqram 9-14-76 STREET& NUMBER TELEPHONE 1 5011371-2763 CITY OR TOWN STATE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION 1 THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATION*& STATE - LOCAL - As the des~gnatedState Historic Presewati~nOfficer for the National H~storicPreservation Act of 7966 [Publ~cLaw 89-665).1 1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the Naii~nai'Re~isterand certify thai'i': has been evaluated according fo criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. -.- . . -. -A- - - 'ITLE State ~istoricPreservation Officer FGRNPS bSE0NtY , . 1 HEREBY CERT,IWTHATTH~S PROPERTYt~ IMCLEOEDIN THE NATICNAL REGISTER r <. DATE . - * 01RECi~R.OFRCEQFARCHEOLOGYAN~HlS7084CPRESE3YXTiCN . ' .-+ TEST- DATE K'cf PEA OF THE NAT!ONAL PEGISTER ...... t . -. - -- . GPO EQB-445 +~'ICINITY OF Washinat an Lw. Prairie Grove CoUNn Arkansa s ! 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