Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District

	Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Cemetery with earthworks
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Coordinates	33°30′34.097″N 93°43′03.902″W / 33.50947139°N 93.71775056°W
Area	24 acres (9.7 ha)
NRHP reference No.	04001031
Added to NRHP	September 22, 2004

The Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District encompasses 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 (known as the Dooley Hill Cemetery^[2]) was established adjacent to one of the gun emplacements.^[3]

The fortifications were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.^[1]

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Thomas Dooley 1837 Land Patent.
Thomas Dooley 1839 Land Patent.
Map circa 1861–1865.
Survey map 1900.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Dooley Hill Cemetery (33.507375,-93.700960)". Find A Grave. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "Summary description for Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2014-09-16.

Further reading[]

Christ, Mark K. (June 11, 2015). "Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District". Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture. Central Arkansas Library System.
Environs of Dooley's Ferry, Ark., by M. A. Miller (Map). 1:2000. Confederate States. War department. Department of West Louisiana and Arkansas. May 20, 1864. Retrieved February 25, 2019 – via University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[DHC-2] "Dooley Hill Cemetery (33.507375,-93.700960)". Find A Grave. Retrieved 25 July 2016.

[Summary-3] "Summary description for Dooley's Ferry Fortifications Historic District". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2014-09-16.

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