This name was proposed and approved in 2012 for a section of prairie being restored in northeast Lake Fayetteville Park.
The name is for Sarah Caroline “Callie” Henson. She and her husband, Thomas Andrew Henson, were returning to Arkansas after living in Missouri during the Civil War. They followed the old Missouri Road, which passed through the small prairie. Callie said this was the land she wanted, and the family settled there. It was farmed for nearly a century, even after the city acquired the property as part of Lake Fayetteville Park.
For a period after the farm went to seed, young saplings began to overtake parts of what had been prairie.
Restoration of the prairie began in the 2000s with controlled burns, removal of invasive plants and re-seeding of native prairie grasses.