Arkansas City is a small town with a population of fewer than 400 people, as of the 2010 Census. Located in so...

Located in the Mississippi River town of Arkansas City (Desha County), the Arkansas City Commercial District e...

Lawrence Dunlap and David Jobe, both Black men, were hanged at Arkansas City (Desha County) on February 28, 19...

Located in the Mississippi River town of Arkansas City (Desha County), Arkansas City High School is a historic...

Oliver Keith Baker is a Yale University physicist who has conducted groundbreaking research in particle physic...

Evangeline Katherine Johnson Brown was a longtime educator and activist in the Arkansas Delta who served as a ...

Wallace Henry Coulter was an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who was co-founder and chairman of Coulter C...

The Dante House, built in 1965, is a one-story Mid-Century Modern house designed by the noted Arkansas archite...

Hardwood forests, alluvial soil, and flooding rivers marked the Native American territory that became Desha Co...

The Desha County Courthouse in Arkansas City (Desha County) is a two-and-a-half-story brick structure built in...

The Desha County Historical Society (DCHS) was founded in January 1969 at the county courthouse in Arkansas Ci...

The Desha County Training School was constructed in McGehee (Desha County) in 1927 for the education of Africa...

Constructed circa 1915, the Dickinson-Moore House in Arkansas City (Desha County) has experienced the ebb and...

Dumas of Desha County is in the Arkansas Delta, west of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers. Dumas has long be...

Encompassing the core of the historic downtown area in Dumas (Desha County), the Dumas Commercial Historic Dis...

In January 1920, federal troops were called out to quell a feared “race war” near Dumas (Desha County). Th...

Judson Landers (J. L.) Erwin Jr. served as the county judge of Desha County from 1947 to his death in 1968. He...

Coleman “Fluke” Fleming was a young African American man hanged at Dumas (Desha County) on August 5, 1898,...

On May 6, 1907, an African-American man named Sam Fleming—who was reportedly from Pine Bluff (Jefferson Coun...

Rosalie Santine Gould was a longtime mayor of McGehee (Desha County) best known for her efforts to preserve th...

A Union scouting foray from Helena (Phillips County) to Laconia (Desha County) in late May 1864 resulted in th...

Jim Hines, born in Dumas (Desha County), was an Olympic track and field star who won gold medals at the 1968 O...

The Hubert and Ionia Furr House is located at 702 Desoto Avenue in Arkansas City (Desha County). Built in 1910...

Joseph Boone Hunter was Director of Human Services at the World War II–era Japanese American Relocation Cent...

On October 4, 1877, an African-American man named Henry Jackson was shot by a masked mob near Watson (Desha Co...

The Jay Lewis House, constructed in 1955 in McGehee (Desha County), was one of the few residential designs of ...

Anthony “Andy” Johnson, an African American man described as a “desperado,” was hanged at Dumas (Desha...

John H. Johnson rose above abject poverty and racial discrimination to build a publishing empire that helped f...

Caldwell Jones was a professional basketball player who had a seventeen-season career in the American Basketba...