James Harris (J. H.) Atkinson was an educator, author, and historian who, through his leadership in state and ...

W. Emmett Atkinson was a farmer and teacher working in Arkansas in the later part of the nineteenth and first ...

James Clayton (Jim) Bailey, Arkansas’s most celebrated sportswriter, chronicled a century of growth in the s...

Camp Magnolia, also known as Civilian Public Service Camp No. 7, was the only World War II–era work camp in ...

Henry Capus, an African-American man, was lynched in late June 1894 in Columbia County. The reports regarding ...

Natural resources have been the mainstay of the Columbia County economy, from cotton in the nineteenth century...

The Columbia County Courthouse, an early twentieth-century building designed by William S. Hull, is a classic ...

Located in Magnolia (Columbia County), the Couch-Marshall House is an example of what has become known as the ...

Influenced by a teacher’s counsel, Harvey Crowley Couch helped bring Arkansas from an agricultural economy i...

Rhonda Lee Oglesby Coullet was the only Miss Arkansas ever to resign her title. After briefly fulfilling her r...

The Cross and Nelson Hall Historic District consists of two former dormitories located at 100 East University ...

Octavia Dockery was a writer, socialite, and eventual recluse who became embroiled in the “Goat Castle Murde...

Thomas Pleasant Dockery attained the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate army, commanding Arkansas tr...

Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of t...

Emerson is a town on U.S. Highway 79 in southern Columbia County. It is located six miles north of the Arkansa...

From 1990 to 2023, Emerson (Columbia County) hosted an annual gathering for fans of purple hull peas. The Purp...

Don Fess of Magnolia (Columbia County) built and patented a prototype engine that saved energy by using rotati...

The Greek Amphitheatre, located at the junction of East Lane Drive, East University Street, and Crescent Drive...

Once described by Sports Illustrated as the most versatile player in professional football, Arkansas native Ro...

John Timothy (Tim) Griffin has been a major figure in Arkansas Republican politics in the first decades of the...

John Harper was a Black man hanged at Magnolia (Columbia County) on October 12, 1904, for the murder of his wi...

Travis Calvin Jackson was one of six native Arkansans elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He played...

Jordan Jameson, an African-American man, was burned to death on November 11, 1919, on the town square in Magno...

Lamartine was a small community founded in present-day northwest Columbia County sometime before 1840. Some so...

The Liberator was an anti-Catholic weekly newspaper published in Magnolia (Columbia County) from 1912 to 1915....

Logoly State Park in southwestern Arkansas was the state’s first environmental education park. At Logoly, in...

Magnolia is the county seat of Columbia County and home of Southern Arkansas University (SAU). It is also an i...

Tennessee native John Porter McCown pursued a long military career concluding with service as a major general ...

The community of McNeil in Columbia County emerged as a railroad depot in the 1880s. Just to the east of the c...

On July 26, 1902, an African American man named Lee Newton was lynched in the Corney Creek bottoms near Spotts...