THE MAPPING OF MAYFIELD HOUSE

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1 THE MAPPING OF MAYFIELD HOUSE P E A R I D G E M I L I T A R Y PARK A Community EMPACTS Project Jennifer Canfield, Ted Siebert, Vanessa Fisher Introduction to Geographic Information Paul Lowrey

2 INTRODUCTION The focus of this project is creating a map that leads to the Mayfield House in Leetown, AR. With this information will help the Pea Ridge National Military Park by mapping parts of Lee town and showing were the Mayfield house was, so in the future U.S. National Park Service can research the area and learn new information about the Leetown area.

3 MAYFIELD HOUSE 1913

4 A B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F L E E T O W N H A M L E T B Y V I R G I L B E C K The earliest land record I have found for Leetown Hamlet is a deed from 3 September 1851 from Abedingo Shelton to Martha Lee and John W. Lee. Bearss refers to an earlier land patent made to Abedingo Shelton. For roughly ten years Leetown Hamlet was a promising town. It had a school, a church, two Stores, blacksmith shop, and a Masonic Lodge. But the battle of Leetown destroyed the town. What is called the Battle of Leetown did not take Place in Leetown itself, but in a clearing about one half mile to the North. Two Confederate Generals fell during the Battle of Leetown, Major General McCulloch and minutes afterwards Brigadier General McIntosh, the union Army won after a day of hard fighting. After the Battle of Pea Ridge Leetown Hamlet was used as a hospital, by the Union Army, Union troops and Confederate Prisoners were seen at Leetown Hamlet. The best description of Leetown Hamlet at the time of the battle comes from a Union Surgeon. Leetown Hamlet is described to have fifteen to twenty houses, frame and log. The surgeon goes on to say that there was a shortage of water, but Lee creek and Winston spring were known to always have water and with the wet weather should have been running. All the buildings in Leetown Hamlet except the Lee house and the Wix Mayfield House were destroyed between March and November of The way the buildings were destroyed is not know they were destroyed either by Bushwhackers or the Army. I tend to believe it was done by Bushwhackers when they destroyed the Elkhorn Tavern. The Wix Mayfield house burned (if can t find when). The Lee House was still standing at the time the Land became part of the Pea Ridge National Military Park, and for some reason was destroyed. This is a great loss to the History of the Park, because the chimney and front room of the house was there during the Battle of Pea Ridge.

5 A BRIEF HISTORY OF LEETOWN HAMLET The earliest land record I have found for Leetown Hamlet is a deed from 3 September 1851 from Abedingo Shelton to Martha Lee and John W. Lee. Bearss refers to an earlier land patent made to Abedingo Shelton. 1. Deed of Sale from Abedingo Shelton and wife to Martha Lee and John W. Lee, 3 September, 1851, Benton County Arkansas, Deed Book B, Page 169, Benton County Achieves, Rogers, Arkansas. 2. Edwin C. Bearss, Leetown, Elkhorn Tavern Grounds, Federal Earthworks, and Tanyard as of March, 1862, (Pea Ridge, NMP, 1865),80 3. U.S. Department of the Army, the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Appendix to Part I,(Washington DC, 1875),340.

6 PROJECT OVERVIEW Mapping the area in and around the Mayfield house and Leetown to promote historical research in the Pea Ridge Military Park

7 1940 Arial View

8 Current Arial View used to determine the points

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10 COMMUNITY Pea Ridge National Military Park, our community and school will benefit from the efforts of our team in the following ways: Creating new information that will promote further research into Leetown area and the Mayfield House. Finding an exposed pipe in the ground, Virgil helped the park by marking the area and alerting the staff

11 CURRICULUM Course objectives Applied the techniques of GIS &GPS technologies towards our project. Identify the Mayfield House location on the Pea Ridge Battlefield by GPS coordinates and GIS mapping. Import, store, and manage geographical data from a variety of sources. Organize layers, including such tasks as layer activation, hierarchy, and manipulation of layer display properties to optimize visual effect. Create and analyze new data by creating spatial relationships between multiple datasets. Display results in a variety of formats, including maps, Power Point, onsite images. Utilize skills to create a GIS product for analysis of local problems, as a final group project (EMPACTS component).

12 TECHNOLOGY Arc GIS esri (Global Information Systems) by esri technologies- description Microsoft Office, Word &PowerPoint- to create a presentation of the information GPS, etrex Venture HC

13 SKILLS DEVELOPED Teamwork skills- Interacting with each other in a productive manner. The teamwork skills that we develop will help in life and in our careers. Individual skills- GIS skills will help in a work environment. these skills give us knowledge and confidence.

14 SKILLS DEVELOPED Technology skills. Communication skills. Organizational skills

15 METHODOLOGY Ted made all professional contacts Jennifer and Vanessa collected waypoints using a GPS device The group downloaded the GPS data and created maps to show our path traveled

16 PROJECT OUTCOME What we found: Yucca plants framed the Stone foundation. An old Cellar Ground pipe Electric jack

17 TREASURES Rusted metal Glass bottles Tools

18 PROJECT RESULTS The Mayfield house was located The tracking on the GPS was loaded and identified successfully Red flags were placed along the route

19 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Textbook- Mastering Arc GIS by Maribeth Price Paul Lowrey-map overlay Virgil Beck- Historian Kevin Eads-Pea Ridge National Military Park Dianne Philips- Website installation

20 APPENDICES Textbook- Mastering Arc GIS by Maribeth Price Vigil Beck, Historian- A Brief History of Leetown Hamlet Paul Lowrey- Map Overlay process using arial map from 18 and google earth map

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24 The Red trail leads to the Mayfield House, the Yellow trail was our failed first attempt

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26 Leetown Cemetery