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Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment

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Built
  
1858 (1858)

Area
  
5 ha

Added to NRHP
  
29 September 2009

NRHP Reference #
  
09000771

Opened
  
1858

Nearest city
  
Cedarville

Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment

The Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment is a historic stretch of road in Crawford County, Arkansas. It is a 3-mile (4.8 km) segment of Lucian Wood Road, extending northward from a junction with Armer Lane in 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. This road was used by the Butterfield Overland Mail service between 1858 and 1861, along what was described as one that route's roughest sections. It is now an improved and graded gravel roadway about 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, with several deeply-cut sections.

The road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

Butterfield Overland Mail Route Lucian Wood Road Segment Wikipedia