Alma has been Crawford County’s second-largest town since the town’s establishment around 1872. It became ...

Although today it is more commonly applied to the anti-tank weapon widely used during World War II, or to a pr...

Willis Beard was hanged on May 29, 1857, at Van Buren (Crawford County) for killing a man in the Indian Territ...

Thomas Meade Bowen was a Civil War officer for the Union, president of the 1868 Arkansas Constitutional Conven...

Camp Jesse Turner, located on Pickett Hill on the east side of Van Buren (Crawford County), was a small, speci...

The December 28, 1923, assault and murder of a white woman in the Catcher community in Crawford County quickly...

Cedarville (Crawford County) is in northwestern Arkansas, five and a half miles east of the Oklahoma border an...

Surrounded by some of the higher peaks of the Ozark Mountains and by the Ozark National Forest, Chester is a t...

Crawford County is situated in northwest Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. The Boston Mountains on the north an...

Two enslaved African American men named Frank and Dennis were hanged at Van Buren (Crawford County) on Decembe...

Ivan Denton, a pioneering Ozark woodcarver specializing in wildlife and Western scenes, was one of the most pr...

James Anthony Dibrell Jr. was a founder of the University of Arkansas Medical Department (now the University o...

The Drennen-Scott Historic Site is the former home of pioneer John Drennen (1801–1855) and his descendants, ...

John Drennen was a prominent businessman who is called the father of Van Buren (Crawford County). The home he ...

Dyer is a second-class city in Crawford County. It lies on Highway 64 west of Mulberry (Crawford County) and e...

Clara Bertha Eno has been called Arkansas’s first lady of history. She devoted her life to researching and r...

The Confederate Section of Fairview Cemetery, near the junction of 10th and McKibben streets in Van Buren (Cra...

As Federal forces consolidated power in northwestern Arkansas, efforts were made to find and destroy any remai...

Mary Beth Green was a state representative from Van Buren (Crawford County) in the 82nd, 83rd, and 84th Arkans...

Thomas J. Hagerty was a Roman Catholic priest and social activist. He was originally involved in the Socialist...

Charles A. Harper, originally from New England, spent a nomadic career soldiering, practicing law, and in busi...

Kit Helton was hanged on March 7, 1902, for murdering his wife—the first of three executions conducted at Va...

Jim DuPree et al. v. Alma School District No. 30 et al. was a lawsuit that triggered twenty-five years of liti...

East of Van Buren (Crawford County) and south of Alma (Crawford County), the city of Kibler is about halfway b...

Although it first became a state park in 1967, making it Arkansas’s twenty-third state park, the opening of ...

Frank Lane was a career criminal likely lynched on August 25, 1882, after killing two men over an argument dur...

Created and abolished because of treaties, Lovely County in Arkansas Territory existed for only a year. While ...

Hall (or Hal) Mahone was a young African American man hanged at Van Buren (Crawford County) on November 7, 190...

Amos McCurtain was a Choctaw man hanged at Van Buren (Crawford County) on June 24, 1870, for a double murder i...