According to the menu, Cotham’s Mercantile was once a small town general store that was struggling to survive when a small restaurant was added to serve lunch to area farmers. Success of the restaurant was attributed to Bill Clinton discovering the “Hubcap Hamburgers” while serving as Arkansas Governor. Cotham’s Mercantile stopped operating as a general store, but many of the... more

The visitor center offers exhibits and introductory film that explain the history of the area and the Indian mounds (one was used for burials). An asphalt and boardwalk, mile-long trail leads through the mounds and cypress trees growing in the adjacent lake that was once the Arkansas River. more