Arkansas County

A. M. Bohnert Rice Plantation Pump No. 2 Engine
Located on the southeast corner of the junction of U.S. Highway 165 and Post Bayou Lane near Gillett (Arkansas...
Almyra (Arkansas County)
Located half-way between Stuttgart (Arkansas County) and DeWitt (Arkansas County) on state Highway 130, the to...
Arkansas County
Arkansas County, located in southeast Arkansas, has two county seats—DeWitt and Stuttgart. It is one of the ...
Arkansas County Courthouse, Northern District
The Arkansas County Courthouse in Stuttgart (Arkansas County) is a Classical Revival–style, brick building ...
Arkansas County Courthouse, Southern District
The Arkansas County Courthouse for the Southern District in DeWitt (Arkansas County) was designed by Little Ro...
Arkansas Post
Arkansas Post was the first and most significant European establishment in Arkansas. In the colonial and early...
Arkansas Post Museum
The Arkansas Post Museum (previously Arkansas Post Museum State Park) in southeastern Arkansas displays exhibi...
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Arkansas Post National Memorial is a unit of the National Park Service located in southern Arkansas County nea...
Battle of Arkansas Post
aka: Battle of Fort Hindman
aka: Battle of Post of Arkansas
The Battle of Arkansas Post, also known as the Battle of Fort Hindm...
John James Audubon (1785–1851)
John James Audubon, a frontier naturalist and artist, is famous for illustrating and writing The Birds of Amer...
Marion Berry (1942–2023)
Marion Berry represented Arkansas’s First Congressional District as a Democrat for seven terms. First electe...
Jean Bernard Bossu (1720–1792)
Jean Bernard Bossu was a French captain and adventurer who explored the region of the Mississippi River while ...
Scout from Brownsville to Arkansas Post (December 7–13, 1864)
The December 7–13, 1864, Union scouting expedition from Brownsville (Lonoke County) to Arkansas Post (Arkans...
Lloyd Leslie "Scooter" Burke (1924–1999)
Lloyd Leslie “Scooter” Burke is among the most-decorated Arkansans to have served in the military. He serv...
William Closson (Lynching of)
In May 1869, a white man named William Closson was lynched in DeWitt (Arkansas County) after his first murder ...
Colbert Raid
On April 17, 1783, British-sympathizing Native Americans and British nationals carried out an attack upon the ...
Crockett’s Bluff (Arkansas County)
Crockett’s Bluff, a town in Arkansas County, is located on a bluff over the White River. It figures prominen...
Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center
Arkansas has more than 1.2 million acres of farmland used for rice production and is the largest producer of r...
Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge
aka: White River National Wildlife Refuge
The Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, located in ...
DeWitt (Arkansas County)
DeWitt, one of the two seats of Arkansas County, is located in the center of Arkansas’s rice industry and is...
DeWitt Commercial Historic District
Centered on Courthouse Square in DeWitt, the southern seat of Arkansas County, the DeWitt Commercial Historic ...
DeWitt Lynching of 1891
On December 21, 1891, a mob of masked men entered the jail in DeWitt (Arkansas County) and shot three men: Flo...
Thomas Dickinson (Execution of)
Thomas Dickinson was hanged for murder at Arkansas Post (Arkansas County) in 1820 in the first legal public ex...
Frank Dodd (Lynching of)
Frank Dodd was lynched in DeWitt (Arkansas County) on October 8, 1916, by a mob of about 300. He had reportedl...
Frank Lorenzo Doughty (1930–)
Frank Lorenzo Doughty is an architect who worked with Edward Durrell Stone and E. Fay Jones and who designed s...
William Dugan (Lynching of)
A white man named William Dugan was lynched in St. Charles (Arkansas County) on October 17, 1875, shortly afte...
Wayne Eugene DuMond (1949–2005)
aka: Wayne Dumond Affair
Wayne Eugene DuMond was a serial rapist and killer whose crimes and...
Elligin and Anderson (Lynching of)
Two African-American men named Elligin and Anderson were lynched in September 1877 near DeWitt (Arkansas Count...
Floating CCC Camp at Jacks Bay
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) side camp BF-2 at Jacks Bay in Arkansas County was distinct from most ot...
Fort Hindman
Located on the Arkansas River near the site of Arkansas Post, Fort Hindman served as an important Confederate ...
Gillett (Arkansas County)
Gillett, a small city in southern Arkansas County, Stanley Township, is located on the west side of U.S. Highw...
Gillett Coon Supper
In Arkansas, one of the most acknowledged, anticipated, and attended wild game dinners is the annual Gillett C...