On July 8, 1906, an African American named William Anderson was hanged from a telephone pole just south of Til...

On July 30, 1892, Eugene Baker (sometimes referred to as Dan Baker), who allegedly murdered a white man in Ash...

In 1897, John Jefferson Lee Spence established the Drew Normal Institute in the town of Wilmar (Drew County). ...

Peggy Long Hartness was a state representative from Monticello (Drew County), serving Drew County and p...

Boll Eevil is a 1973 horror movie set in Monticello (Drew County). Although poorly received at the time of its...

LeAnne Pittman Burch of Monticello (Drew County) served in the Arkansas House of Representatives representing ...

Camp Monticello was a World War II prisoner-of-war (POW) camp south of Monticello (Drew County). The camp was ...

Henry Howard “Hank” Chamberlin is considered to be the father of forestry education in Arkansas. He began ...

In October 1868, a white deputy named William J. Dollar and an African-American man named “Fed” Reeves wer...

Drew County is located at the edge of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (the Delta) in the West Gulf Coastal plai...

The Drew County Courthouse, located at 210 South Main Street in Monticello (Drew County), is a three-and-a-hal...

The Drew County Historical Society owns and operates the Drew County Museum, the Drew County Archives, and the...

Hershel Wayne Gober was an Arkansas native who followed a career in the military with business and government ...

William M. Harrison was a Maryland-born lawyer who spent twelve years as an associate justice of the Arkansas ...

Hinemon University School was established in 1890 at Monticello (Drew County) by an organization of local comm...

Donald Holley was a historian, author, and longtime professor at the University of Arkansas at Monticello (UAM...

Sylvester C. (S. C.) Hotchkiss was a northern architect turned Monticello (Drew County) resident who designed ...

On December 1, 1886, an African-American man named Buck Hunter was lynched in Monticello (Drew County) for all...

The town of Jerome is located in southeastern Drew County, although its residents are more tied to Dermott (Ch...

Constructed in 1930, the Jerome Elementary School No. 22 is an example of an early twentieth-century school bu...

William Johnson was a young African American man hanged near Monticello (Drew County) in 1883 for murdering th...

James Jones (some sources refer to him as W. A. Jones) was an African-American choir director lynched near the...

A native of California, Theodore Shigeru (Ted) Kanamine spent part of his childhood at the Jerome Relocation C...

Robert C. Knox, scion of a southern Arkansas family of politicians and lawyers, built a thirty-year legal and ...

Sheilla Lampkin was a state representative from Monticello (Drew County) who served in the Eighty-eighth...

Charles M. McDermott was a medical doctor, minister, plantation owner, Greek scholar, charter member of the So...

Monticello is the largest town in southeast Arkansas south of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County). Its history is on...

Monticello Academy in Drew County was under the sponsorship of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presb...

Located in downtown Monticello (Drew County), the Monticello Commercial Historic District includes numerous st...

The Monticello Confederate Monument is a commemorative sculpture erected in 1915 on the grounds of the Drew Co...

The 1937 Monticello Post Office in Monticello (Drew County) is a one-story, brick-masonry structure designed i...