Larry Dell Alexander was a visual artist, writer, and Bible teacher best known for his elaborate pen-and-ink d...

In 1836, the establishment of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas became the initial act to pass the first state ...

Flowing from southeastern Arkansas into northeastern Louisiana, the Boeuf River is a shallow stream important ...

Arkansas native Franklin Burgess earned All-American honors in basketball at Washington State’s Gonzaga Univ...

Chicot County is the southeasternmost county in Arkansas. It is bounded by Louisiana to the south and the Miss...

The Chicot County Courthouse is a 1950s–era Art Deco building incorporating many Corporate or Government Mod...

U.S. Navy warships destroyed the town of Eunice (Chicot County) and the settlement at Gaines’ Landing (Chico...

Columbia, founded during the late territorial period, was a busy settlement located on the western bank of the...

The February 19, 1863, skirmish at Cypress Bend near present-day Rohwer (Desha County) was part of a Union exp...

Confederate Missourians under Colonel John B. Clark skirmished with Union gunboats at Cypress Bend in southeas...

Dermott grew from a bayou settlement, which had its beginning in the early 1840s, to a thriving railroad town ...

The Dermott Crawfish Festival is one of the longest continuously running festivals in Arkansas. Every third we...

Dermott (Chicot County) did not have its own newspaper until decades after the community was founded in the 18...

Located in Lake Village (Chicot County), the Dr. E. P. McGehee Infirmary served as a healthcare facility for b...

Sam Epstein, a Russian-Jewish immigrant, was a merchant, planter, and civic leader in Lake Village (Chicot Cou...

The city of Eudora, in the southeastern corner of Arkansas, was built on land rising twenty-five feet above th...

Conflict along the Mississippi River did not end with the Confederate defeat at the July 1863 Battle of Helena...

The Eudora City Hall, which houses governmental offices for the city of Eudora (Chicot County), is a two-story...

In August 1862, General Samuel Curtis, commander of the Army of the Southwest, dispatched a naval-escorted gro...

On July 19, 1891, an African-American man named John Farmer was lynched in Chicot County for allegedly murderi...

Sandford C. (Sandy) Faulkner is an iconic individual from Arkansas’s early statehood. Although he never held...

This Civil War skirmish occurred in relation to strategic considerations of Major General Samuel R. Curtis aft...

Located on the western bank of the Mississippi River in Chicot County, Gaines’ (or Gaines) Landing was a bus...

The Skirmish near Gaines’ Landing, in which Confederate cavalrymen ambushed a detachment of the Mississippi ...

Margaret Garner, a Kentucky-born enslaved woman, gained national notoriety for killing one child and attemptin...

Clyde Hart was one of the nation’s leading track and field coaches. Serving as the head coach at Baylor Univ...

In late November 1921, a young African-American man named Robert Hicks was lynched near Lake Village (Chicot C...

The J. Wilson was a steamboat that was destroyed when two of its boilers exploded as it left Columbia (Chicot ...

The Japanese American relocation site at Jerome (in Drew County and partially in Chicot County) was listed on ...