William Cummings Stout (1824-1886) became the first Arkansan ordained as a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1849. In 1855, he and his wife purchased 5000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River beginning at the east end of Petit Jean Mountain, and Stout built Hawkstone Plantation on the river's south bank using slave labor. Union forces camped there during the Civil War and ruined the plantation, but after the war the Stouts turned Hawkstone into a busy river port. Stout's Point, the rugged peak at the easternmost tip of Petit Jean Mountain, has long been a notable feature of the landscape. Known since the 1850s as Stout's Point, the area had once been called Nelson Point. Daniel Nelson, a Hawkstone Plantation foreman and apple orchard farmer, built a large home there in the early 1890s and received a homestead patent for the land in 1897. In 1920, a Young Men's Christian Association camp acquired the point, and in 1946 the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas bought the camp and renamed it Camp Mitchell in honor of Bishop R. Bland Mitchell. Today Stout's Point remains a popular part of Petit Jean State Park, managed by Arkansas State Parks through a long-term agreement with the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas.