Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 06000087 Added to NRHP 2 March 2006 | Built 1915 (1915) Opened 1915 Nearest city Hamburg | |
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MPS Dip That Tick:Texas Tick Fever Eradication in Arkansas MPS | ||
The Sumner–White Dipping Vat is a historic concrete cattle dipping vat in Ashley County, Arkansas. It is located about four miles northeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 82 and County Road 69, half a mile in the woods northeast of the Sumner-White Hunt Club. The vat is a concrete structure about 27 feet (8.2 m) long, 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, and 7 feet (2.1 m) deep. A U-shaped concrete structure, built about the same time, stands about 2 feet (0.61 m) from the vat, near where cattle would have exited the vat. It was probably built c. 1915, when a statewide program was initiated for the eradication of Texas tick fever. The facilities were likely used until the program came to an end in 1943.
The vat and associated U-shaped structure were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.