Ernest Guy Amsler, who was born and educated in Mississippi, moved to southern Arkansas with a law degree afte...

  Ashley County is located in southeast Arkansas and is part of both the Mississippi Alluvial and West Gu...

Prior to the Civil War, most lynchings in Arkansas and across the nation (particularly on the frontier) took ...

On February 18, 1904, Glenco Bays was burned at the stake near Crossett (Ashley County) for the murder of J. D...

On May 29, 1909, African-American man Sam Blakely—with his brother Joe Blakely as an accessory—allegedly m...

Joseph Albert Booker—noted editor, educator, and community leader—was for four decades a prominent leader ...

Gretha Denise Boston is a celebrated mezzo-soprano and Tony Award–winning actress. She made her Carnegie Hal...

Lawyer and jurist Turner Butler was a farmer and schoolteacher before educating himself in law. Butler practic...

John Paul “Pete” Caldwell of Parkdale (Ashley County) was a well-known banker and community leader. During...

John Carroll Cone was a promoter of aviation in Arkansas and established two significant air organizations in ...

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the demand for wood fiber for a growing country led lumbermen, ...

Established in 1934, the Crossett Experimental Forest (CEF) of the United States Department of Agriculture (US...

Outside of Crossett (Ashley County), where the old railroad tracks once lay, an unexplained light has become a...

The Crossett Lumber Company (CLC) was Arkansas’s largest and most influential lumber company from its foundi...

An unknown African-American man was lynched near Crossett (Ashley County) on September 4, 1904, for having all...

Located in the small timber industry town of Crossett (Ashley County), the Crossett Municipal Auditorium is a ...

The Crossett Strike of 1940 was a fifty-eight-day work stoppage in the lumber and manufacturing town of Crosse...

Edward Savage Crossett was a pioneer Arkansas lumberman during the late nineteenth century. As the great South...

Lee Edward Culbreath, a fourteen-year-old Black youth, was shot to death on December 5, 1965, in Portland (Ash...

On July 24, 1899, an African-American man named Chick Davis was shot by a posse near Wilmot (Ashley County). W...

Danny K. Davis is an Arkansas-born politician who has represented the Seventh District of Illinois in the U.S....

Fountain Hill is a town on U.S. Highway 425 in northern Ashley County. The town has been a center for agricult...

As a small town, Hamburg is typical in the economic challenges facing it but is atypical in that it has become...

Boge Jackson was an African American man hanged at Hamburg (Ashley County) on November 18, 1881, for the shotg...

Joseph Walter (Joe) Jackson was a talent manager best known as the father and manager of his children’s care...

Rickey Lane Jasper is the highest-ranking African American ever to serve in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen...

The Jeffress/Phillips Music Company, located in Crossett (Ashley County), is one of the five remaining seven-s...

James Douglas “Justice Jim” Johnson served as an Arkansas state senator and an associate justice on the Ar...

On June 23, 1891, an African-American man named Henry Jones, accused of murdering his wife, was hanged by a mo...

On June 17, 1895, an African-American minister named Frank King was hanged in Portland (Ashley County) for all...