Adventure Day: Prairie Creek Battlefield

Summer is coming to an end. How depressing! Even with the kids feeling bored and missing friends, we are kicking and screaming at the thought of bus routes and homework and ALL THE THINGS that are about to start up again.  

I packed up some snacks and my people and we set out for a day of together.  Destination: prairie grove. 

Temps were record high and knowing we all wilt like parched flowers in extreme heat, I skipped the tour of the Fayetteville Alpaca farm and drove us straight to  Prairie Grove. 

Prairie Grove, Arkansas, featurines one of the best preserved American Civil War battlefield sites.  It was disgustingly hot and humid, but we learned a lot about the battle of Prairie Grove that secured NWA for the Union. We explored an old church, a one room school house, a dogtrot house, a blacksmith shop, and the Borden House, where when the mother saw the battlefront working its way onto to her corn and wheat fields, gathered up her three children to and fled to a nearby homestead and waited out the fighting in an underground cellar. They returned to find their home burned to the ground, but rebuilt the house you see in the pic in 1870.  

Life in the 1860’s was rough and this is definitely hallowed ground.  It was said that one could walk across the battle field without ever touching the ground because the ground lay covered with soldiers sacrificed in the fight.

This is the part where Soren told me his face was melting into a frown. We went back to the car and drove the remainder of the tour. We decided we could still feel pioneery with air conditioning blasting in our faces.  Thanks for being such good site seers, kids! 

The Borden House (Haha NOT to be confused with the home of Lizzie Borden of Massachusetts, where Lizzie allegedly murdered her parents with an axe.) 


I look forward all year long to summer specifically because of days like this. Long live tour guide mothers and adventures together in her great big fun bus.