Calhoun County

Young white man in military uniform
Raymond Henry Bass (1910–1997)
Raymond Henry Bass was an Olympic gold medalist, Gymnastics Hall of Fame honoree, and decorated World War II h...
Multistory brick building "Calhoun County Court House" with tall clock tower and arched entrance
Calhoun County
Located in south-central Arkansas, with its southernmost border about twenty-five miles from the Louisiana sta...
Multistory brick building "Calhoun County Court House" with tall clock tower and arched entrance
Calhoun County Courthouse
The Calhoun County Courthouse is a 1909 building composed of a rectangular central wing flanked on all sides b...
Obelisk monument and stone wall memorial next to brick building with clock tower
Hampton (Calhoun County)
Hampton has served as the seat of Calhoun County since the county was created in 1850, and it remains the coun...
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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...
"Jim Harrison" newspaper clipping
Hampton Race War of 1892
aka: Calhoun County Race War of 1892
The Hampton Race War (also referred to as the Calhoun County Race ...
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Hampton Waterworks
The Hampton Waterworks is located on the north side of Hunt Street west of Lee Street in downtown Hampton (Ca...
"Calhoun County" map with borders roads cities waterways
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...
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Lost 40
The Lost 40 is a forty-acre tract of mature forest along Wolf Branch (a tributary of Moro Creek) in southeaste...
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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...
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Harry Z. Thomason (1940–)
Harry Zell Thomason is a film and television producer best known for the television series Designing Women and...
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Thornton (Calhoun County)
The city of Thornton developed on the St. Louis and Southwestern Railway (often called the Cotton Belt) four m...
"Calhoun County" map with borders roads cities waterways
Tinsman (Calhoun County)
Tinsman is a town in eastern Calhoun County. Once important as a junction for the Rock Island Railroad, the to...
Naval vessel number 519 at sea
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...
"Two lynched" newspaper clipping
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,...