From Wikipedia.
Eunice was also called Eunice Landing and Railroad Township. It is a ghost town on the Mississippi River in Chicot County, Arkansas.
It was completely destroyed by the Union Army in the Civil War (well, the Navy, actually).
It was the eastern terminus of the Mississippi, Ouachita and Red River Railroad (MO&RR) Construction on it began in 1852 and by the start of the war, they had seven miles of track completed west of Eunice.
The railroad was completed after the Civil War, but abandoned in 1875 after Mississippi River flooding. Today Arkansas Highway 208 between Eunice and Halley is built on top of the abandoned railroad.
--Old B-Runner
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