Jerry, I'm going to fill you in on some of the main roads in your area. First To be as brief as possible, I'll not go into great details on this website. These four roads will almost make a box around where you live, north/south-east/west and the focus point will Austin, Arkansas, except Batesville Pike. #1 We'll start with Batesville Pike, it started in Huntersville (NLR) now just called Pike Avenue traveling north it crosses Hwy 107 about a half mile north of the junction of Hwy 107 and 89. It crosses Hwy 5 about a mile north of Greystone and onto El Paso and onto Batesville, Arkansas. #2 The Little Rock/Searcy road leaving Austin north and is Hwy 319 crosses the Freeway just north of Ward. It goes to Stoney Point from there, it comes into Searcy from the southwest. Now for the two main east/west roads in your area. #3 South of you is the Butterfield stage route, west out of Austin and clipping the north edge of Cabot. It crossed Hwy 5 at Greystone moving west and a few miles south of Vilonia it headed on through to Conway and met up with the Little Rock spur of the Butterfield Stage line near Cadron Settlement on the Arkansas River. There it went on to Fort Smith. Now for your road, #4 The Lewisburg Road. The Lewisburg Road was an early indian trail that ran from the Post of Arkansas (Arkansas Post) to Lewisburg, Arkansas. Lewisburg was on the Arkansas River just south of the modern day Morrilton. The Lewisburg Road left northwest out of Austin and crosses the freeway and is the modern day Ed Haymes Road. Just north of where you live it becomes and still is the Lewisburg Road. It also runs west toward Conway, but a few miles east of Conway it crosses Hwy 64 to the north. (You could see the old deep cut roadbed going up the ridge on the north side of Hwy 64, until they widen the highway. You can still see it, if you get on top of the ridge and look at it going down the north side. From here it went north of Conway on to the town of Springfield and worked its way southwest to Lewisburg. Remember these are main roads in your area, There were many local branches, splits and bypasses of these roads. If a road got bad they just moved the roadbed over a short distance and carried on. And this is why if you read a modern pamplet, etc. of a historic road or trail they are only getting the tourist close. maybe dead on and maybe miles off. There's a website for the Butterfield Stage routes, and again sometime their close and sometimes not, but its the best anyone can do under these modern times and circumstances. Hope this gives you something to work with. I love walking or riding a horse on an old civil war roadbed. I can see and feel a time gone by; of course I do this on a nice wonderful day. I can't help and wonder how in the hell these people of the civil war era traveled these roads at night or anytime with a freezing rain or worst consuming them. R.D.