Craighead County

African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas
The quarterly African American Perspectives Northeast Arkansas magazine was established in Jonesboro (Craighea...
All American Red Heads
A nationally known women’s basketball team, the All American Red Heads formed in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri...
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies
Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies publishes creative and scholarly works focusing on the seven-state...
Arkansas State University (ASU)
Arkansas State University (ASU) is the only four-year public university in northeastern Arkansas. While ground...
Arkansas State University Museum
Arkansas State University Museum, located on the Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro (Craighead Cou...
David Auburn (1969–)
David Auburn is a Tony Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright, screenwriter, and director b...
Nick Daniel (Nicky) Bacon (1945–2010)
Nick Daniel Bacon stands as one of three people connected to Arkansas to have received the Medal of Honor for...
Basil Baker (1871–1941)
Basil Thorpe Baker served on the Arkansas Supreme Court from 1934 until his death in 1941, and while his servi...
Bartleby Clown College
Bartleby Clown College in Jonesboro (Craighead County) was a short-lived institution for the training of clown...
Bay (Craighead County)
Bay (Craighead County) is located in northeast Arkansas between Trumann (Poinsett County) and Jonesboro (Craig...
Earl Holmes Bell (1955–)
Earl Holmes Bell of Jonesboro (Craighead County) is one of the most renowned U.S. men’s pole vaulters and co...
William Earl (Bill) Bergey (1945–)
Bill Bergey, who was a top-rated football player at Arkansas State University (ASU), is considered by many to ...
Black Oak (Craighead County)
The northeast Arkansas town of Black Oak, one of three Arkansas communities so named, is located in Craighead ...
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Oak Arkansas, a popular rock and roll band of the 1970s from rural Arkansas near Black Oak (Craighead Co...
Bono (Craighead County)
Bono, originally named Bonnerville, was established in the Big Creek Township, a community formed in Greene Co...
Booker T. Washington High School (Jonesboro)
Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) in Jonesboro (Craighead County), also known as Jonesboro Industrial Hig...
Jerry Bookout (1933–2006)
Jerry Bookout was a long-time member of the Arkansas General Assembly, where he represented northeastern Arkan...
Gina Bowman (1952–2024)
Gina Bowman, who served as Arkansas State University (ASU) assistant athletic director for media relations bet...
Bridge Street Bridge
The Bridge Street Bridge is a multi-span reinforced-concrete deck girder bridge that spans the former St. Loui...
Brookland (Craighead County)
The city of Brookland has been closely linked over the years to Greensboro, the earliest settlement in what is...
Charles Caldwell (Execution of)
Charles Caldwell was an African American man hanged at Jonesboro (Craighead County) on April 29, 1893, in the ...
Caraway (Craighead County)
Caraway is a small farming community located in Craighead County in the northeast section of the state. The co...
Hattie Caraway (1878–1950)
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first woman to preside over t...
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway (1871–1931)
Thaddeus Horatius Caraway was an Arkansas prosecuting attorney who was elected to the U.S. House of Representa...
Cornelius Tyree Carpenter (1874–1945)
Cornelius Tyree (C. T.) Carpenter was an educator, minister, and attorney in northeastern Arkansas. In additio...
Cash (Craighead County)
Cash is a small, incorporated community in western Craighead County located at the junction of Highway 226 and...
William Henderson Cate (1839–1899)
William Henderson (W. H.) Cate was a lawyer, a judge, and a Democratic politician who served in the state le...
Francis Adams Cherry (1908–1965)
Francis Adams Cherry was a chancery judge, Arkansas’s thirty-fifth governor, and chairman of the federal Sub...
Les Christensen (1960–)
aka: Leslie Ann Christensen
Leslie Ann (Les) Christensen is director of the Bradbury Art Museum...
Citizens Bank Building (Jonesboro)
The Citizens Bank Building in Jonesboro (Craighead County) is a seven-story structure located on the northwest...
Claunch (Craighead County)
Claunch was a small town in Craighead County located on a bend of the St. Francis River, about six miles north...
Carolina Cotton (1925–1997)
aka: Helen Hagstrom
Helen Hagstrom is best known for her country and western swing musi...