Carroll County

Norman Baker (1882–1958)
Norman Glenwood Baker is best known in Arkansas as a promoter of alternative medicine who settled in Eureka Sp...
Bank of Eureka Springs Museum
The Bank of Eureka Springs Museum, located inside the downtown branch of Cornerstone Bank at 70 South Main Str...
Beaver (Carroll County)
Named for early settler Wilson Ashbury Beaver, the Carroll County town of Beaver is on State Highway 187 about...
James Henderson Berry (1841–1913)
James Henderson Berry served as a Civil War officer, lawyer, Arkansas legislator, speaker of the Arkansas Hous...
Berryville (Carroll County)
  Berryville, located in the Ozark Mountains, is one of the seats of Carroll County and is well known for...
Berryville Agricultural Building
The Berryville Agriculture Building, located in the Berryville High School complex at 902 West Trimble Street ...
Berryville Gymnasium
The Berryville Gymnasium, located in the Berryville High School complex at 902 West Trimble Street in Berryvil...
Berryville Post Office
The Berryville Post Office at 101 East Madison Avenue in Berryville (Carroll County) is a one-story, brick-mas...
Reconnaissance to Berryville (March 3–7, 1862)
Colonel Calvin A. Ellis led a force of 140 men of the First Missouri Cavalry (US) from their camp on Sugar Cre...
Blue Eye (Carroll County)
The town of Blue Eye in Carroll County has two distinctions: it is the northernmost community in Arkansas and ...
Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965)
Mary Carson Breckinridge was an American nurse midwife whose contributions left a significant impact on rural ...
Helen Marie Gurley Brown (1922–2012)
Helen Gurley Brown was a native Arkansan whose career includes landmark achievements in advertising and publis...
Bradley Bunch (1818–1894)
Bradley Bunch was a longtime Arkansas legislator, Carroll County judge, and the first historian of Carroll Cou...
Festus Orestes Butt (1875–1972)
Festus Orestes Butt was an Arkansas politician, attorney, judge, and banker who served in a variety of elected...
Cora Elizabeth Pinkley Call (1892–1966)
Cora Elizabeth Pinkley Call was a popular Ozark writer, naturalist, herbalist, folklorist, and Eureka Springs ...
Carroll County
Changing boundary lines, the massacre of a California-bound wagon train, and the power of healing springs have...
Carroll County Courthouse, Western District
The Carroll County Courthouse, Western District in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) was built in 1908 from a de...
Carroll County Historical and Genealogical Society
On September 6, 1955, a group of citizens consisting of Alice Baker Gentry, Ruth Trimble, Lois Stubbs, Cora Pi...
Carrollton (Carroll County)
Carrollton (Carroll County), the original seat of Carroll County, was one of the area’s largest settlements ...
Skirmish at Carrollton (August 15, 1864)
Part of an effort to disrupt enemy operations across northwestern Arkansas, this skirmish was one of several f...
Irene Castle (1893–1969)
Irene Castle was a famous ballroom dancer in the 1910s to the 1930s who appeared in several silent movies and ...
Marcellus Holmes Chiles (1895–1918)
Army captain Marcellus Holmes Chiles is one of twenty-one Arkansas natives to have received the nation’s hig...
Christ of the Ozarks
Christ of the Ozarks is a statue located in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) on top of Magnetic Mountain. The w...
Chrystal
Chrystal is a film written and directed by longtime Arkansas resident Ray McKinnon. The movie stars McKinnon�...
Clarke's Academy
Clarke’s Academy was a private school that operated between 1867 and 1905 in Berryville (Carroll County). Th...
Crescent College and Conservatory
The Crescent College and Conservatory for Young Women operated out of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs (Ca...
Crescent Hotel
The Crescent Hotel was built in 1886 in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) by the Eureka Improvement Company, the...
John Storrs Cross (1904–1976)
John Storrs Cross became a national and international expert in all types of electronic communication as a mem...
George J. Crump (1841–1928)
George J. Crump was an officer in the Civil War and the Brooks-Baxter War. He was a prominent attorney in Carr...
Crescent Dragonwagon (1952–)
aka: Ellen Zolotow
Crescent Dragonwagon, born Ellen Zolotow, is the author of more tha...
Beverley Githens Dresbach (1903–1971)
Beverley Githens Dresbach was a poet and journalist who lived in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) with her husb...
Glenn Ward Dresbach (1889–1968)
Glenn Ward Dresbach was an internationally known poet with ten books to his credit when he moved to Eureka Spr...
Elna M. Smith Foundation
aka: Five Sacred Projects
aka: Sacred Projects
The Elna M. Smith Foundation was created in 1965 by Gerald L. K. Sm...
Enon Massacre
A shootout on the night of September 16, 1922, in Enon (Boone County), a sprawling, unincorporated area locate...
Eureka Springs (Carroll County)
Eureka Springs is a northwestern Arkansas tourist town situated in the Ozark Mountains. One of two county seat...
Eureka Springs Baby
aka: Eureka Baby
aka: Petrified Indian Baby
The 1880 discovery of a fossilized human child in Eureka Springs (C...
Eureka Springs Historical Museum
The Eureka Springs Historical Museum is located in the 1889 Calif Building. Its mission is to collect, preserv...
Elsie Mari Bates Freund (1912–2001)
Elsie Mari Bates Freund was a studio art jeweler, watercolorist, and textile artist. In 1941, she and her husb...
Harry Louis Freund (1905–1999)
Harry Louis Freund was a muralist who became famous for his depictions of life in the Ozark Mountains of Arkan...
Claude Albert Fuller (1876–1968)
Claude Albert Fuller was a noteworthy lawyer, city clerk, state legislator, prosecuting attorney, mayor, and c...
Eliza A. (Lizzie) Dorman Fyler (1850–1885)
Lizzie Dorman Fyler was an activist in Arkansas in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although she die...
Glenn Rowlett Gant (1911–1999)
Glenn Gant was an important figure in the art history of Eureka Springs (Carroll County). He is best remembere...
Herbert Richard (H. R.) Gibson (1901–1986)
Herbert Richard (H. R.) Gibson Sr. was the founder of Gibson Products Company, parent company of the once prom...
The Gospel of Eureka
The independent documentary The Gospel of Eureka (2018), directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, attrac...
David Crockett (D. C.) Graham (1884–1961)
David Crockett (D. C.) Graham was a Baptist missionary and pioneer anthropologist in southwestern China. Over...
Great Passion Play
aka: Passion Play
The Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) is an ou...
Green Forest (Carroll County)
Green Forest, a second-class city in Carroll County, once aspired to be the county seat. Its checkered history...
Green Forest Tribune
In 1889, Herbert Spencer Holden purchased the Arkansas Tomahawk (1888–1889) newspaper plant in Green Forest ...
Green Forest Water Tower
The Green Forest Water Tower is located on Springfield Street in Green Forest (Carroll County). The metal wate...
Fred High (1878–1962)
aka: Fredrick Green High
Fredrick (Fred) Green High, who lived in Carroll County from birth ...
Joseph Morrison Hill (1864–1950)
Joseph Morrison Hill was elected chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1904, the first person to defe...
Holiday Island (Carroll County)
Holiday Island is a planned community in northwestern Carroll County, a few miles north of Eureka Springs (Car...
It's Alive!
Larry Buchanan was a producer and director of very low-budget films, with titles such as Zontar, the Thing fro...
Edd Jeffords (1945–2002)
Edd Jeffords was one of the most visible figures in the Arkansas counter-culture movement centered in Eureka S...
Skirmish at King's River
One of a number of skirmishes fought in northwestern Arkansas in April 1864, this engagement was part of an ef...
Kings River
The Kings River runs for about ninety miles through Madison and Carroll counties to its confluence with the Wh...
Skirmish at Klepper's Sawmill
aka: Skirmish at Clapper's Sawmill
In early 1863, Confederate general John Sappington Marmaduke moved ...
Lake Lucerne
Lake Lucerne is an artificial lake about a mile and a half south of Eureka Springs (Carroll County). The story...
William Morrison (Lynching of)
William Morrison was lynched by a mob of his neighbors in Eureka Springs (Carroll County) on July 24, 1887, af...
Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846–1911)
aka: Carry Nation
Carry Amelia Moore Nation was a temperance advocate famous for bein...
Oak Grove (Carroll County)
Oak Grove is a town in northern Carroll County, located at the intersection of State Highways 21 and 103. A na...
Old Carroll County Courthouse, Eastern District
The Old Carroll County Courthouse, Eastern District at Berryville (Carroll County), built in 1880–1881 and e...
Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point
Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point is a summer program that trains opera singers and stages performances...
Affair on the Osage Branch of the King's River
This Civil War engagement demonstrates the continued presence of small bands of semi-autonomous Confederate co...