Address Restricted, Spring Hill, Arkansas. County/parish: Hempstead.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 22, 2004. NRIS 04001031.
3 contributing sites.Also known as:
The Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District protects a series of military earthworks erected in southwestern Arkansas, along the Red River in Hempstead County. They were constructed in late 1864 by Confederate troops under orders from Major-General John B. Magruder as a defense against the potential movements of Union Army forces toward Shreveport, Louisiana. They command a formerly major road intersection just east of Dooley's Ferry, one of the most important regional crossings of the Red River. After the war a cemetery for African-Americans was established adjacent to one of the gun emplacements.
The fortifications were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
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