Clark County

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Lucien Abraham (1902–1960)
Lucien Abraham was an Arkansas educator and military officer who rose to the rank of adjutant general of the A...
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Alpine (Clark County)
Alpine, one of the oldest settlements in Clark County, is an unincorporated community located in the northwest...
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Amity (Clark County)
Amity traces its beginnings to the arrival of a group of pioneer families, under the leadership of Deacon Will...
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Antoine River
The Antoine River rises from a confluence of streams in the Ouachita Mountains of Pike County, just west of Am...
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Arkadelphia (Clark County)
Serving as Clark County’s seat of government since 1842, Arkadelphia has served as a farm market and trading...
"Negro Baptists Meet" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Baptist Academy
The Arkadelphia Baptist Academy in Arkadelphia (Clark County) was one of many schools founded across the South...
Log cabin with covered porch and covered windows in forested area
Arkadelphia Boy Scout Hut
The Arkadelphia Boy Scout Hut is a log building located in Central Park in Arkadelphia (Clark County). Constru...
Multistory brick storefronts with parked cars and street lamp with banner in the foreground
Arkadelphia Commercial Historic District
The Arkadelphia Commercial Historic District consists of twenty-nine contributing buildings located in the hea...
statue of soldier with hat and gun on top of stone monument with pedestal inside iron fence next to multistory brick building with gazebo
Arkadelphia Confederate Monument
The Arkadelphia Confederate Monument is a commemorative sculpture erected in 1911 on the grounds of the Clark ...
"The Triple Noose" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Executions of 1889
Three African American men—Dan Jones, Anderson Mitchell, and Willis Green—were hanged on March 15, 1889, i...
"Triple Lynch" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Lynching of 1879
aka: Lynching of Daniels Family
In late January 1879, Ben Daniels and two of his sons—who were ac...
"Arkadelphia female college" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Male and Female Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Institute
aka: Arkadelphia Female Seminary
aka: Arkadelphia Female College
aka: Arkadelphia Female Academy
Several educational institutions with variations of the name Arkade...
"Colored Football Team Challenges" newspaper clipping
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy
Arkadelphia Presbyterian Academy, located in Arkadelphia (Clark County), was a co-educational elementary and s...
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Skirmish at Arkadelphia
After capturing Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in September 1863, Union forces...
Arkansas Literary Forum
The Arkansas Literary Forum (ALF) was an internet literary journal published each fall by Henderson State Univ...
Several house bills listed number one hundred and thirty three text "a bill to be entitled to an act to amend section two of an act approved December thirty first eighteen sixty entitled an act to incorporate the Arkansas Synodical college of Arkadelphia"
Arkansas Synodical College
The Arkansas Synodical College, chartered shortly before the Civil War, was one of several abortive attempts b...
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Arkansas Technical Assistance and Consultative Center
The Arkansas Technical Assistance and Consultative Center (ATACC), funded by the U.S. Department of Education,...
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Bob “Sody” Arnold (1943–2017)
Bob “Sody” Arnold was a longtime Arkansas state legislator, representing Clark County in the Arkansas Gene...
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William Howard "Dub" Arnold (1935–2023)
William Howard “Dub” Arnold was a prosecutor, municipal judge, and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme C...
"State News" newspaper clipping
Wash Atkinson (Lynching of)
On December 6, 1877, an African-American man named Wash Atkinson was hanged by a mob in Arkadelphia (Clark Cou...
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Bald Eagle Mass Death of the 1990s
During the winters of 1994–95 and 1996–97, unprecedented mass deaths occurred among bald eagles at DeGray ...
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Jacob Barkman (1784–1852)
Jacob Barkman is known as the father of Clark County. An early settler along the Caddo River, Barkman eventual...
"Clark County" map with borders roads cities waterways
Barringer (Clark County)
Barringer is a community located in southern Clark County about one mile northwest of Whelen Springs (Clark Co...
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Battle of the Ravine
The Battle of the Ravine is the name most frequently used for the annual football game at Arkadelphia (Clark C...
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Beirne (Clark County)
The small community of Beirne is located twenty-one miles southwest of the Clark County seat of Arkadelphia. I...
Henry Garland Bennett (1886–1951)
Henry Garland Bennett was an Arkansas-born educator who played a transformative role in the development of the...
Jesse N. "Buddy" Benson (1933–2011)
Jesse N. “Buddy” Benson earned statewide recognition in Arkansas athletic circles, first as a football pla...
"Clark County" map with borders roads cities waterways
Bethel (Clark County)
Bethel was a community in Clark County northeast of Okolona (Clark County). It was never a large settlement, a...
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Estelle McMillan Blake (1861–1950)
Estelle McMillan Blake was a respected and beloved Arkansas college educator whose career teaching English and...
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buZ blurr (1943–2024)
aka: Butler, Russell
Russell Butler (a.k.a. buZ blurr) was a visual and conceptual artis...
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Boswell (Clark County)
Boswell is a community in Clark County that was most active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuri...
Bowles (Lynching of)
Sometime around August 22, 1892, an African-American man identified only by his surname, which was Bowles, was...