Ft. Smith Confederate Monument, Fort Smith

Name: Ft. Smith Confederate Monument
Address: Fort Smith, United States

#11 among attractions in Fort Smith

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The Ft. Smith Confederate Monument stands on the grounds of the Sebastian County Courthouse at the junction of 6th and Rogers Streets in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The statue depicts a Confederate Army soldier, standing facing north, holding the upper stock of his rifle, which is grounded. The sculpture is 6 feet in height, and is mounted on a square columnar pedestal over 30 feet tall. The monument was placed in 1903 with funding raised by the local chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. An earlier Confederate memorial, placed at Fort Smith National Cemetery, was destroyed by a tornado, and the federal government objected to the placement of this memorial there without alterations to also commemorate the Union dead. The city granted permission for its placement at its current location. ()

Built: 1903 (121 years ago)Coordinates: 35°23'10"N, 94°25'34"W

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Ft. Smith Confederate Monument – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith Trolley Museum, W.H.H. Clayton House, Fort Smith Museum of History.

~1770 ftNW
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Fort Smith National Historic Site, Fort Smith
9 min walk • Fort Smith National Historic Site is a National Historic Site located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, along the Arkansas River. The first fort at this site was established by the United States in 1817, before this area was established as part of Indian Territory.
~1190 ftW
Museum, Specialty museum
Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith
6 min walk • The Fort Smith Trolley Museum is a streetcar and railroad museum in Fort Smith, in the U.S. state of Arkansas, which includes an operating heritage streetcar line. The museum opened in 1985, and operation of its streetcar line began in 1991.
0.5 miNE
Museum, History museum
W.H.H. Clayton House, Fort Smith
13 min walk • The W.H.H. Clayton House, now the Clayton House Museum, is a historic house museum at 514 North 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a projecting front clipped-gable section.
~870 ftNW
Museum, History museum
Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith
5 min walk • The Fort Smith Museum of History is located at 320 Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The museum is devoted to presenting the history of Fort Smith and the surrounding region.
0.4 miNE
Park
Belle Grove Historic District, Fort Smith
12 min walk • Belle Grove Historic District is a predominantly residential historic district north of the central business district of Fort Smith, Arkansas. This area became an affluent residential area not long after Fort Smith was established in 1842, and was most heavily developed between about 1870 and 1930.
~180 ftS
City hall
Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Fort Smith
1 min walk • The Sebastian County Courthouse/Fort Smith City Hall is a historic civic building at 100 South 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large four-story stone and concrete structure with modest Art Deco styling, designed by Fort Smith architects E. Chester Nelson, T. E.
~1310 ftSW
Cemetery
Fort Smith National Cemetery, Fort Smith
7 min walk • Fort Smith National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Garland Avenue and Sixth Street in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It encompasses 22.3 acres, and as of the end of 2005, had 13,127 interments.
1.5 miSE
Church
South Side Baptist Church, Fort Smith
38 min walk • South Side Baptist Church is a historic Southern Baptist church at 2400 Dodson Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large two-story brick building, built in 1948 with Moderne styling.
1.2 miSE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Fort Smith
32 min walk • The Goddard United Methodist Church formerly the Dodson Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, is a historic church at 1922 Dodson Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
~1340 ftE
Concerts and shows, Theater
New Theatre, Fort Smith
7 min walk • The New Theatre is a historic theatre building at 11 North 10th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Beaux Arts building was built in 1911, and was supposedly modeled on the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.
0.9 miSE
Mission Revival Style architecture
Tillman Shaw House, Fort Smith
23 min walk • The Tillman Shaw House is a historic house at 500 South 19th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The house is an architecturally eclectic two-story brick structure, set on an artificially raised plot in a neighborhood of predominantly smaller houses.

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Nearby attractions include Sebastian County Courthouse-Ft. Smith City Hall, Fort Smith (1 min walk), Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith (5 min walk), Fort Smith Trolley Museum, Fort Smith (6 min walk), West Garrison Avenue Historic District, Fort Smith (6 min walk).