Benton County

Allens, Inc.
aka: Allen Canning Company
aka: Sager Creek Vegetable Company
Allens, Inc., began canning vegetables at Siloam Springs (Benton Co...
Alph (Lynching of)
A mob of white residents of Benton County lynched Alph, an enslaved African-American man, on August 20, 1849. ...
Americans for Immigration Moratorium (AIM)
Founded in Rogers (Benton County) in 1997, Americans for an Immigration Moratorium (AIM) was an organization t...
Lloyd Andrews (1906–1992)
aka: Arkansas Slim
aka: Slim Andrews
Lloyd “Arkansas Slim” Andrews was best known for film roles as ...
Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad
The Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad (A&OW), based in Rogers (Benton County), was incorporated on Ju...
Arkansas Black Apple
The Arkansas Black Apple is recognized by early sources as having been first produced in 1870 in the orchard o...
Arkansas Conference College (ACC)
Arkansas Conference College (ACC) was founded in Siloam Springs (Benton County) in 1899. Though short-lived, A...
Arkansas-Missouri League
aka: Arkansas State League
The Arkansas State League/Arkansas-Missouri League was a profession...
Avoca (Benton County)
Avoca is a town on U.S. Highway 62 in Benton County, located between Rogers (Benton County) and Pea Ridge Nati...
Richard L. (Dick) Barclay (1937–2019)
Richard L. (Dick) Barclay was a major figure in state and Republican politics in the last part of the twentiet...
Fred Wallace Bartell (1872–1958)
Frederick Wallace Bartell was a Siloam Springs (Benton County) merchant, church leader, and Circuit Chautauqua...
Beaver Dam and Lake
Beaver Lake was created by Beaver Dam in Carroll County. The lake—technically a reservoir since it was creat...
Bella Vista (Benton County)
Bella Vista in Benton County was originally planned as a summer recreation resort. Half a century later, the r...
Bella Vista Historical Museum
The Bella Vista Historical Museum, located on Highway 71 in Bella Vista (Benton County), preserves more than 1...
Bella Vista Water Tank
The Bella Vista Water Tank sits on a small, triangular piece of land at the corner of Cunningham Drive and Ced...
Benton County
Located in the northwest corner of Arkansas, Benton County borders Missouri and Oklahoma and is part of the Oz...
Benton County Courthouse
The Benton County Courthouse at 106 Southeast A Street in Bentonville (Benton County) is a three-story public ...
Benton County Historical Society
The Benton County Historical Society (BCHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting, publishing, an...
Benton County Poor Farm Cemetery
The Benton County Poor Farm Cemetery, which contains an unknown number of burials, is located approximately on...
Bentonville (Benton County)
  Bentonville, the Benton County seat, has grown from a farming community to the home of the world’s la...
Bentonville College
On March 15, 1894, what was described as a “mass meeting” of new subscribers to Bentonville College met in...
Bentonville Confederate Monument
The Bentonville Confederate Monument is a commemorative sculpture erected in 1908 in the Bentonville (Benton C...
Bentonville Film Festival
The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) is held annually in Bentonville (Benton County), with the main focus of th...
Desegregation of Bentonville Schools
Bentonville (Benton County) was one of the earliest school districts in Arkansas to admit African American stu...
Action at Bentonville
The Action at Bentonville occurred on February 18, 1862, as Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis sought to maneu...
Skirmish at Bentonville
A small engagement in extreme northwestern Arkansas, this skirmish was part of a larger scouting expedition la...
Bethel Heights (Benton County)
Bethel Heights was a city in southern Benton County, situated on Business Highway 71 between Lowell (Benton Co...
Sylvanus Blackburn (1809–1890)
Sylvanus Walker Blackburn is noted for building the first gristmill in Benton County, locating his mill on War...
Thomas Elwood Blagg (1934–2023)
Tom Blagg was a career soldier and intellectual with diverse talents. In two stints in the Vietnam War, he dis...
Gary Pitt “Blackie” Bond (1936–2018)
Gary “Blackie” Bond, whose career spanned more than three decades at Rogers High School in Rogers (Benton ...
Boom Town
Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town into an International Community is a 2009 nonfiction ...
Shirley Ursala Czosek Borhauer (1926–2013)
Shirley Borhauer was a representative from Bella Vista (Benton County) in the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth,...