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In 1832, when money was appropriated to
repair the military road from Little Rock to Memphis, Governor John Pope, a good friend of
David Rorer's let the
contracts in segments. The segment nearest Little Rock went to Rorer,
Samson Gray, and Samuel M. Rutherford. Instead of repairing the old road,
they cut a new one from Robert Crittenden's ferry along the riverbank to Rorer's Ferry
and then northeasterly toward Samson Gray's, intersecting the old road near
Wiley Beasly's home. This gave Rorer a decided advantage because the
traffic from Memphis reached his ferry first, and he offered rates at half what
Crittenden had offered.
Source: Arkansas Gazette, May 21, 1967.
Source: Arkansas Gazette, July 12, 1832.
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