Dallas County

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Arkansas Military Institute
The Arkansas Military Institute was one of the earliest schools of its kind in the state. Established in Tulip...
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Bank of Carthage
The Bank of Carthage is a historic building located in Carthage (Dallas County). Designed by Charles Thompson ...
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Aloysius Burton Banks (1868–1953)
aka: A. B. Banks
Little Rock (Pulaski County) native Aloysius Burton Banks became de...
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Brazeale Homestead
The Brazeale Homestead is a collection of eleven buildings located near the Pine Grove community in southweste...
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"Bear" Bryant (1913–1983)
aka: Paul William Bryant
Paul William “Bear” Bryant is one of America’s all-time most ...
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Butler-Matthews Homestead
The Butler-Matthews Homestead is a complex of agricultural structures located near Tulip (Dallas County). Sixt...
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Captain Goodgame House
The Captain Goodgame House is a historic home located in the Holly Springs (Dallas County) area; it is near Ar...
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Carthage (Dallas County)
Carthage is located in northern Dallas County, on Highways 48 and 229. Formed by the railroad and timber ind...
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Charlotte Street Historic District
Located in Fordyce (Dallas County), the Charlotte Street Historic District includes the core of a historic sub...
Freeman Walker Compton (1824–1893)
Freeman W. Compton was an eighteenth-century lawyer from North Carolina who moved to Arkansas and, with his wi...
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Dallas County
Dallas County is a rural county, dominated in its early days by farming, mostly cotton, and then railroads and...
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Dallas County Courthouse
The Dallas County Courthouse in Fordyce was erected in 1911. The building is the most elaborate structure in ...
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Dallas County Museum
In September 1993, the State of Arkansas chartered the Dallas County Museum in Fordyce (Dallas County). In the...
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Dallas County Training School High School Building
The High School Building at the Dallas County Training School is located in Fordyce (Dallas County). Construct...
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Ed Knight House
The Ed Knight House is an enclosed double-pen dog-trot-style home near the Pine Grove (Dallas County) communit...
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Elliott House
Located in Fordyce (Dallas County), the Elliott House is a Craftsman-style home in a quiet residential neighbo...
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Fielder House
The Fielder House is a historic home located in Fordyce (Dallas County). The original structure was constructe...
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First Presbyterian Church (Fordyce)
Located on East Fourth Street in Fordyce (Dallas County), the First Presbyterian Church is a Gothic Revival–...
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First United Methodist Church (Fordyce)
Located on East Fourth Street in Fordyce (Dallas County), the First United Methodist Church is a historic plac...
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Fordyce (Dallas County)
Located at the intersection of Highways 167 and 79 in south central Arkansas, Fordyce was established in 1882 ...
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Fordyce and Princeton Railroad
The Fordyce and Princeton Railroad (F&P) was one of several southern Arkansas short lines built around the...
Storefront buildings with curb steps on street corner
Fordyce Commercial Historic District
The Fordyce Commercial Historic District includes the core of downtown of Fordyce (Dallas County). Centered on...
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Fordyce on the Cotton Belt Festival
The small town of Fordyce (Dallas County) celebrates the railroad and its historical significance with the ann...
Single-story house with weathered metal roof and covered porch on front and side
George W. Mallett House
The George W. Mallett House was, for a while, the only antebellum structure still standing in Princeton (Dalla...
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Henry Atchley House
The Henry Atchley House is located in Dalark (Dallas County). Constructed in 1908, the house is notable for it...
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James Kimbrough Jones (1839–1908)
James Kimbrough Jones served as a U.S. senator from Arkansas for three full terms after first serving two term...
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Isaac Taylor (Ike) Murry (1913–1990)
Isaac Taylor (Ike) Murry was a lawyer and politician whose surging career before, during, and after World War ...
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Princeton (Dallas County)
A once thriving town, Princeton had become a small community with a population of only thirteen by the 2020 fe...
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Skirmish at Princeton (April 28, 1864)
  After Union major general Frederick Steele abandoned Camden (Ouachita County) and led his army back to ...
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Skirmish at Princeton (December 8, 1863)
The December 8, 1863, Skirmish at Princeton was part of a Union reconnaissance mission out of Little Rock (Pul...
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Redbug Field
Redbug Field in Fordyce (Dallas County) is a high school football field with its significance lying in the fac...
Thomas Jefferson Reid (1838–1907)
Thomas Jefferson Reid was a physician and a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War. Reid not onl...