Clarence Elmo Bell was a prominent public school educator as well as a longtime, influential member of the Ark...

The Captain Isaac N. Deadrick House was a two-story, Greek Revival–style residence constructed in 1850 in th...

Sometime during the first week of August 1892, an African-American man named Allen Carter was lynched at Wynne...

Casqui was a Native American chief who ruled over a province in northeastern Arkansas in the 1500s. He was the...

The second-class city of Cherry Valley (Cross County) began as a small settlement near the junction of Cooper�...

Bettye Fiscus Dickey was the first true female college basketball star at the University of Arkansas (UA) in F...

The East Hamilton Avenue Historic District located in Wynne (Cross County) is listed on the National Register...

Bette Evensky Greene was a successful novelist who was raised in Arkansas and who used Arkansas as the setting...

On December 2, 1893, an African-American man named Bob Greenwood was shot by so-called whitecappers who went t...

Henry Harding was executed at Wynne (Cross County) on May 6, 1910, after being convicted of first-degree murde...

On August 18, 1871, an African-American man named Frank Harris was lynched at Wittsburg (Cross County) for all...

Head pots are a very rare and unique form of pre-historic Native American pottery found almost exclusively in ...

Like much of northeast Arkansas, Cross County was relatively undeveloped in the years following the Civil War....

Legendary blues guitarist B. B. King had a monumental career heavily influenced by his experiences in Arkansas...

The Northern Ohio Cooperage and Lumber Company was a sawmill that produced lumber and barrel staves on the ban...

Until the mid-twentieth century, the majority of Arkansas children were taught in one-room schoolhouses, most ...

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 in northeast Arkansas preserves and interprets a Mississippian-period Native A...

The Parkin Historic Site is a seventeen-acre Native American village site along the St. Francis River in Cross...

Essex Pippin (sometimes listed as Pipkin), a nineteen-year-old African American man, was hanged at Vanndale (C...

James L. Shaver Jr. became an influential figure in the Arkansas House of Representatives in the second half o...

South Elementary School, located at 711 East Union Avenue in Wynne (Cross County), is a single-story, brick-ve...

Bette Greene’s Summer of My German Soldier is a novel and a television movie set in eastern Arkansas during ...

William H. Thomas, a native of Wynne (Cross County), was an American soldier in World War II who was awarded t...

On March 31, 2023, a massive outbreak of tornadoes struck nine states across the country, from Arkansas and Io...

An unincorporated community located in Cross County, Twist is best known for being the location where legendar...

Village Creek State Park in northeast Arkansas, located six miles south of Wynne (Cross County), encompasses a...

On November 20, 1902, an African American man named Wells was lynched in Wynne (Cross County) for allegedly at...

Where Somebody Waits is a 2013 novel written by Margaret Kaufman of California and published by Paul Dry Books...

Located on the eastern slope of Crowley’s Ridge in the St. Francis River watershed, Wittsburg developed near...

The Wittsburg Fortification is an earthen redoubt built in July 1863 at the junction of the Wittsburg to Bates...