Lamartine was one of the oldest settlements in Columbia County. Colonel John Dockery had his plantation and home here, and T.P. Dockery, who became a general in the War Between the States, was born and reared here. The Caddo Indian Trail from Camden on the Ouachita to Miller's Bluff on Red River passed by this place, and other Indian trails entered here. Andrew Jackson cut out these trails and built a military road in 1825 from New Orleans to the frontier forts of Towson and Fort Smith.