I received E-Mail that said:
My name is Jenny, there is an old castle that is located on the Alexander Mountain here on the outside of Little Rock, AR, right behind my house. It is all broken up now, but use to be a big castle and I wish I knew more about it. It was buried behind hundreds of trees, but was found when some teens went riding up the mountain with their 4-wheelers and spotted the remains of it. They have now removed all the trees around and very soon will be knocking it down to build new homes. I would love to know more about it before they do so. It is out in the open now, and from it's remains you can see that it was probably very large and beautiful. Please, help me find out something about it. Thanks a bunch!
PS. I have even found old cradles and stuff around it.
Later, I received E-Mail that said:
Attached are pictures and some great info forwarded to me by one Kelli Peters of the Arkansas Heritage organization of the "Unknown" castle in Little Rock. She wrote:
Also, we found a survey of what remains of it - at least we think this is the same property. I scanned a few of the slides we have and they are below. Please tell me whether or not you think this may be the one you're talking about.
The information we have is very limited. All the survey form says is that the "second floor was reinforced with small railroad tracks" (what that means, exactly, I'm not sure - railroad ties?). It says it was built c. 1920. Apparently, it was of stone construction and had at least one arched entry. The brush appears to be overgrown and one photo shows a basement. The survey was done in February 1990. However, the structure doesn't show up on the current TopoZone.com quad map.
Let me know if you have any other questions. If this is the correct structure, you may be able to locate information from the Saline County History & Heritage Society in Benton (501) 778-3770 or the Arkansas History Commission (501) 682-6900.
Does anyone have more information about it? Does it have a name? Is this the correct picture?
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Photo sent in by Katrina Price.