Cleburne County

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Cyrus Adler (1863–1940)
Cyrus Adler was a scholar, editor, and Jewish leader with a lifetime commitment to the study of Jewish history...
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Almond (Cleburne County)
Almond lies in the northeastern corner of Cleburne County. The community historically had close family and com...
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Banner (Cleburne County)
Banner is located on Highway 87 (also called Floral Road) less than two miles from the point at which Floral R...
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Camp Halsey
Camp Halsey was a Soil Conservation Service camp established in 1934 a few miles to the east of Greenbrier in ...
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Cleburne County
Although it was the most recent of Arkansas’s seventy-five counties to be formed, Cleburne County has proved...
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Cleburne County Courthouse
The Cleburne County Courthouse was constructed in 1914 on the courthouse square in Heber Springs (Cleburne Cou...
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Cleburne County Draft War
The Cleburne County Draft War was one of three violent encounters in World War I–era Arkansas that occurred ...
"Cleburne County Farm Cemetery National Register of Historic Places 2005" plaque on iron fence
Cleburne County Farm Cemetery
The Cleburne County Farm Cemetery, which contains seventeen graves, is located approximately three miles south...
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Concord (Cleburne County)
Concord is a town located in the northeastern corner of Cleburne County. It is perhaps most well known as the ...
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Dill School
aka: Ida School
The Dill School at Ida (Cleburne County), located on Highway 25 and...
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Mike Disfarmer (1882–1959)
aka: Mike Meyer
A portrait photographer in Heber Springs (Cleburne County), Mike Di...
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Drasco (Cleburne County)
Originally called Crossroads or Cross Roads (because the Batesville-Clinton and Richwoods-Searcy roads interse...
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Edgemont (Cleburne County)
Edgemont is an unincorporated community in northern Cleburne County. It is located on the northern side of the...
"Melvin L Endsley" gravestone with guitar engraving and portrait on it in cemetery
Melvin Endsley (1934–2004)
Melvin Endsley of Drasco (Cleburne County) was a musician and songwriter most noted for writing both the words...
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Max Frauenthal (1836–1914)
Max Frauenthal, a German immigrant noted for bravery in the Civil War, established an important mercantile bus...
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Greers Ferry (Cleburne County)
Greers Ferry, established and incorporated in 1968, quickly grew to become the second-largest city in Cleburne...
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Greers Ferry Dam and Lake
Greers Ferry Dam on the Little Red River, approximately three miles north of Heber Springs (Cleburne County), ...
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Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn (1899–1957)
Paul Irvin “Pappy” Gunn was a Quitman (Cleburne and Faulkner counties) native whose innovative alterations...
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Laurell K. Hamilton (1963–)
A pioneer for strong female protagonists crossing multiple genres, New York Times bestselling author Laurell K...
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Heber Springs (Cleburne County)
Heber Springs, the county seat of Arkansas’s youngest county, has been identified as a tourist area from the...
Heber Springs Water Panther
The Heber Springs Water Panther is a creature described as a cross between a Sasquatch (or “bigfoot”) and ...
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Higden (Cleburne County)
Higden is a town in the northwestern corner of Cleburne County, located along Highway 16. It sits at the west ...
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Johnnie Bryan "J. B." Hunt (1927–2006)
One of the most successful entrepreneurs in Arkansas history, Johnnie Bryan “J. B.” Hunt rose from humble ...
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Ida (Cleburne County)
Ida of Cleburne County is on Highway 25 (Heber Springs Road) about three miles south-southeast of Drasco (Cleb...
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Little Red River
The Little Red River runs through north-central Arkansas, arising from several different forks in the Ozark Mo...
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William Mercer (Lynching of)
William Mercer was apparently shot to death in 1898 by a Cleburne County lynch mob that found him after weeks ...
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Mike Meyer Disfarmer Gravesite
Mike Disfarmer was a Heber Springs (Cleburne County) mid-twentieth-century portrait photographer whose work ga...
Lee Mills (Execution of)
Lee Mills was hanged at Heber Springs (Cleburne County) on September 16, 1898, for a murder and robbery in Van...
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Old Highway 16 Bridge
The Old Highway 16 Bridge, located on Lakefront Resort Road near Edgemont (Cleburne County), is a reinforced c...
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Prim (Cleburne County)
Prim is an unincorporated community located at the junction of Arkansas Highway 225 (Sunny Slope Road) and Hig...
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Quitman (Cleburne and Faulkner Counties)
Quitman, originally a part of Van Buren County, is now located in both Cleburne and Faulkner counties. Twelve ...
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Quitman Home Economics Building
The Quitman Home Economics Building, located on Second Avenue, was built in 1937–1938 with assistance from t...