Ashley County

Ernest Guy Amsler (1895–1986)
Ernest Guy Amsler, who was born and educated in Mississippi, moved to southern Arkansas with a law degree afte...
Ashley County
  Ashley County is located in southeast Arkansas and is part of both the Mississippi Alluvial and West Gu...
Ashley County Lynching of 1857
Prior to the Civil War, most lynchings in Arkansas and across the nation (particularly on the frontier) took ...
Ashley County Lynchings of 1877 and 1884
aka: George Jackson (Lynching of)
aka: Sam Jackson (Lynching of)
Two unrelated African-American men named George Jackson and Sam Jac...
Glenco Bays (Lynching of)
On February 18, 1904, Glenco Bays was burned at the stake near Crossett (Ashley County) for the murder of J. D...
Joe Blakely (Lynching of)
On May 29, 1909, African-American man Sam Blakely—with his brother Joe Blakely as an accessory—allegedly m...
Joseph Albert Booker (1859–1926)
Joseph Albert Booker—noted editor, educator, and community leader—was for four decades a prominent leader ...
Gretha Denise Boston (1959–)
Gretha Denise Boston is a celebrated mezzo-soprano and Tony Award–winning actress. She made her Carnegie Hal...
Turner Butler (1869–1938)
Lawyer and jurist Turner Butler was a farmer and schoolteacher before educating himself in law. Butler practic...
John Paul Caldwell (1908–1976)
John Paul “Pete” Caldwell of Parkdale (Ashley County) was a well-known banker and community leader. During...
John Carroll Cone (1891–1976)
John Carroll Cone was a promoter of aviation in Arkansas and established two significant air organizations in ...
Crossett (Ashley County)
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the demand for wood fiber for a growing country led lumbermen, ...
Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF)
Established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) of the United States Department of Agriculture (US...
Crossett Light
Outside of Crossett (Ashley County), where the old railroad tracks once lay, an unexplained light has become a...
Crossett Lumber Company
The Crossett Lumber Company (CLC) was Arkansas’s largest and most influential lumber company from its foundi...
Crossett Lynching of 1904
An unknown African-American man was lynched near Crossett (Ashley County) on September 4, 1904, for having all...
Crossett Municipal Auditorium
Located in the small timber industry town of Crossett (Ashley County), the Crossett Municipal Auditorium is a ...
Crossett Strike of 1940
The Crossett Strike of 1940 was a fifty-eight-day work stoppage in the lumber and manufacturing town of Crosse...
Edward Savage Crossett (1828–1910)
Edward Savage Crossett was a pioneer Arkansas lumberman during the late nineteenth century. As the great South...
Lee Edward Culbreath (Murder of)
Lee Edward Culbreath, a fourteen-year-old Black youth, was shot to death on December 5, 1965, in Portland (Ash...
Chick Davis (Lynching of)
On July 24, 1899, an African-American man named Chick Davis was shot by a posse near Wilmot (Ashley County). W...
Danny K. Davis (1941–)
Danny K. Davis is an Arkansas-born politician who has represented the Seventh District of Illinois in the U.S....
Fountain Hill (Ashley County)
Fountain Hill is a town on U.S. Highway 425 in northern Ashley County. The town has been a center for agricult...
Guy v. Daniel
aka: Abby Guy v. William Daniel
Abby Guy v. William Daniel was a freedom suit and racial identity c...
Hamburg (Ashley County)
As a small town, Hamburg is typical in the economic challenges facing it but is atypical in that it has become...
Boge Jackson (Execution of)
Boge Jackson was an African American man hanged at Hamburg (Ashley County) on November 18, 1881, for the shotg...
Joseph Walter (Joe) Jackson (1928–2018)
Joseph Walter (Joe) Jackson was a talent manager best known as the father and manager of his children’s care...
Rickey Lane Jasper (1963–)
Rickey Lane Jasper is the highest-ranking African American ever to serve in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen...
Jeffress/Phillips Music Company
The Jeffress/Phillips Music Company, located in Crossett (Ashley County), is one of the five remaining seven-s...
James Douglas "Justice Jim" Johnson (1924–2010)
James Douglas “Justice Jim” Johnson served as an Arkansas state senator and an associate justice on the Ar...
Henry Jones (Lynching of)
On June 23, 1891, an African-American man named Henry Jones, accused of murdering his wife, was hanged by a mo...
Frank King (Lynching of)
On June 17, 1895, an African-American minister named Frank King was hanged in Portland (Ashley County) for all...