Cross County

Clarence Elmo Bell (1912–1997)
Clarence Elmo Bell was a prominent public school educator as well as a longtime, influential member of the Ark...
Captain Isaac N. Deadrick House
The Captain Isaac N. Deadrick House was a two-story, Greek Revival–style residence constructed in 1850 in th...
Allen Carter (Lynching of)
Sometime during the first week of August 1892, an African-American man named Allen Carter was lynched at Wynne...
Casqui (1491?–?)
Casqui was a Native American chief who ruled over a province in northeastern Arkansas in the 1500s. He was the...
Cherry Valley (Cross County)
The second-class city of Cherry Valley (Cross County) began as a small settlement near the junction of Cooper...
Bettye Fiscus Dickey (1963–)
Bettye Fiscus Dickey was the first true female college basketball star at the University of Arkansas (UA) in F...
East Hamilton Avenue Historic District
The East Hamilton Avenue Historic District located in Wynne (Cross County) is listed on the National Register...
Bette Evensky Greene (1934–2020)
Bette Evensky Greene was a successful novelist who was raised in Arkansas and who used Arkansas as the setting...
Bob Greenwood (Lynching of)
On December 2, 1893, an African-American man named Bob Greenwood was shot by so-called whitecappers who went t...
Frank Harris (Lynching of)
On August 18, 1871, an African-American man named Frank Harris was lynched at Wittsburg (Cross County) for all...
Head Pots
Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...
Hickory Ridge (Cross County)
Like much of northeast Arkansas, Cross County was relatively undeveloped in the years following the Civil War....
Howlin' Wolf (1910–1976)
aka: Chester Arthur Burnett
Chester Arthur Burnett, known as Howlin’ Wolf or Howling Wolf, w...
Northern Ohio Cooperage and Lumber Company
The Northern Ohio Cooperage and Lumber Company was a sawmill that produced lumber and barrel staves on the ban...
Northern Ohio School
Until the mid-twentieth century, the majority of Arkansas children were taught in one-room schoolhouses, most ...
Parkin (Cross County)
Parkin of Cross County is located on the east side of the St. Francis River in the heart of the Delta, the mai...
Parkin Archeological State Park
Parkin Archeological State Park in northeast Arkansas preserves and interprets a Mississippian-period Native A...
Parkin Historic Site
The Parkin Historic Site is a seventeen-acre Native American village site along the St. Francis River in Cross...
Essex Pippin (Execution of)
Essex Pippin (sometimes listed as Pipkin), a nineteen-year-old African American man, was hanged at Vanndale (C...
James Levesque Shaver Jr. (1927–2021)
James L. Shaver Jr. became an influential figure in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the second half o...
South Elementary School (Wynne)
South Elementary School, located at 711 East Union Avenue in Wynne (Cross County), is a single-story, brick-ve...
Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene’s Summer of My German Soldier is a novel and a television movie set in eastern Arkansas during ...
William Thomas (1923–1945)
William H. Thomas, a native of Wynne (Cross County), was an American soldier in World War II who was awarded t...
Tornado Outbreak of 2023
On March 31, 2023, a massive outbreak of tornadoes struck nine states across the country, from Arkansas and Io...
Village Creek State Park
Village Creek State Park in northeast Arkansas, located six miles south of Wynne (Cross County), encompasses a...
Elias Wells (Lynching of)
On November 20, 1902, an African American man named Wells was lynched in Wynne (Cross County) for allegedly at...
Wittsburg (Cross County)
Located on the eastern slope of Crowley’s Ridge in the St. Francis River watershed, Wittsburg developed near...
Wittsburg Fortification
The Wittsburg Fortification is an earthen redoubt built in July 1863 at the junction of the Wittsburg to Bates...
Woman's Progressive Club (Wynne)
The Woman’s Progressive Club, located at 333 Merriman Avenue in Wynne (Cross County), is a one-story public ...
Comer Vann Woodward (1908–1999)
Comer Vann Woodward was arguably the twentieth century’s foremost Southern historian. Although published in ...
Wynne (Cross County)
Wynne is located with the west slope of Crowley’s Ridge to the east and the L’Anguille River on the west s...
Wynne Lynching of 1892
On June 29, 1892, an unidentified African-American man was apparently lynched in Wynne (Cross County) for alle...