Calhoun County

Raymond Henry Bass (1910–1997)
Raymond Henry Bass was an Olympic gold medalist, Gymnastics Hall of Fame honoree, and decorated World War II h...
Calhoun County
Located in south-central Arkansas, with its southernmost border about twenty-five miles from the Louisiana sta...
Calhoun County Courthouse
The Calhoun County Courthouse is a 1909 building composed of a rectangular central wing flanked on all sides b...
Hampton (Calhoun County)
Hampton has served as the seat of Calhoun County since the county was created in 1850, and it remains the coun...
Hampton Lynching of 1872
On March 12 or 13, 1872, a jailed African-American man alleged to have assaulted a white man named Tom Tatum w...
Hampton Race War of 1892
aka: Calhoun County Race War of 1892
The Hampton Race War (also referred to as the Calhoun County Race ...
Hampton Waterworks
The Hampton Waterworks is located on the north side of Hunt Street west of Lee Street in downtown Hampton (Ca...
Harrell (Calhoun County)
Established as a railroad depot early in the twentieth century, the town of Harrell is in eastern Calhoun Cou...
Carroll Wayne "Thumper" Harris (1938–2015)
Wayne Harris became a football legend as a star for the University of Arkansas (UA) Razorbacks and later in hi...
Lost 40
The Lost 40 is a forty-acre tract of mature forest along Wolf Branch (a tributary of Moro Creek) in southeaste...
John Roy Steelman (1900–1999)
John Roy Steelman, the son of lower-middle-class cotton farmers, rose to become one of President Harry S. Trum...
Harry Z. Thomason (1940–)
Harry Z. Thomason is a film and television producer best known for the television series Designing Women and f...
Thornton (Calhoun County)
The city of Thornton developed on the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway (often called the Cotton Belt) four m...
Tinsman (Calhoun County)
Tinsman is a town in eastern Calhoun County. Once important as a junction for the Rock Island Railroad, the to...
USS Calhoun County (LST-519)
The USS Calhoun County, originally USS LST-519, was a tank landing ship that served the U.S. Navy in the Europ...
Jim and Jack Ware (Lynching of)
On July 14, 1895, brothers Jim and Jack Ware, who allegedly assisted Wiley Bunn in the murder of Allen Martin,...