Evangeline's Cottage was built in 1929 by the youngest child of the Pratt family that settled on what is now called Markham Hill in 1900. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Edward Downie is one of those who lived in an abandoned camp cabin on Markham Hill in the 1950s, renting from Joy Pratt Markham. Here is his story.

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."

Is there evidence of Native Americans on Markham Hill? Is it possible to show respect to Markham Hill's original inhabitants by preserving this land, its trees, its wildlife, its springs?

This story contains a 1941 article in the local newspaper about Joy Pratt Markham and her love of horses. Learn about her horse philosophy!

Joe Neal writes, "Back in the 1960s, I met an elderly gentleman named Ward Pennington, who lived alone in a traditional Ozark cabin in the woods atop Markham Hill ..."

Suki Highers lived in several of the cabins on Markham Hill in the 1990s. This is her story.