calsfoundation@cals.org
April 25, 2007
Though Lutherans have been a part of Arkansas’s religious fabric since the 1790s, the first formal congregation was not chartered until the late 1860s. Education has always been stressed by the Lutheran faithful, and on many occasions, a congregation constructed a school building before the church. This 1907 photo shows a parade celebrating the importance of the many Arkansas Lutheran schools at the beginning of the twentieth century.