Listen to stories about historic Markham Hill in the middle of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Markham Hill originally contained over 300 acres of intact, urban forest and natural areas, several Pratt family-built structures, at least two Native American sites, and has a history of cultural importance to the area, including a boys & girls camp from the 1920s-1940s, hippies and students living in the abandoned camp cabins from th ...
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Pratt Place-Markham Camp. The oldest daughter of the Pratt family, Joy Pratt Markham, ran a camp on their mountain in the 1920s-1940s. The acreage was put on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places in the 1990s. It will be destroyed by the new developer owners if we can't stop them.
This story contains Joe Neal's editorial in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette on August 10, 2018 entitled, "Markham Hill plans won't help the turtles". He writes, "One thing not widely understood about impacts of development like that now proposed for Markham Hill is that populations of wild animals, like our familiar three-toed box turtles, suffer direct negative consequences, and I don't mean those associated with being run over by bulldozers. Entire populations of these animals are destroyed."
