Faulkner County

Arkansas Children's Colony
aka: Conway Human Development Center
Dedicated on October 4, 1959, the Arkansas Children’s Colony was ...
Arkansas Christian College
Arkansas Christian College (ACC) was a short-lived junior college established in 1889 in Pinnacle Springs (Fau...
Arkansas Governor’s School (AGS)
Arkansas Governor’s School (AGS) is a four-week summer residential program for gifted and talented students ...
Arkansas Holiness College
Arkansas Holiness College (AHC), founded in 1904, was the focus for a body of Wesleyan holiness believers who ...
Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN)
The Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN) is a program located on the campus of the University of Central Arkan...
Arkansas Research Alliance
A public/private economic-development organization, the nonprofit Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) was establi...
Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre
The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (AST), Arkansas’s only professional Shakespeare theater company, was origin...
Baby of Arts Degree
After World War II ended, large numbers of veterans were headed to college on the GI Bill, officially known as...
Bell Slough Wildlife Management Area
When Lake Conway was completed in 1951 in the Palarm Creek bottoms of southern Faulkner County, land for the d...
Frank Brown (Lynching of)
On September 22, 1905, an African-American man named Frank Brown was hanged at Conway (Faulkner County) for an...
Kayle Browning (1992–)
Kayle Browning is a world-class markswoman, specializing in trap shooting. She represented the United States i...
C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference
The C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference was established in 2017 to focus on women writers, with a special em...
Cadron Settlement
aka: Cadron (Faulkner County)
The first permanent white settlement in central Arkansas was near t...
Castleberry-Harrington Historic District
The Castleberry-Harrington Historic District in Republican (Faulkner County) consists of three Mixed-Masonry h...
Central Baptist College
Central Baptist College in Conway (Faulkner County) is the only institution of higher education in the state a...
Central College for Women
Founded in 1892, Central College operated in Conway (Faulkner County) until 1950, educating female students an...
Conway (Faulkner County)
Conway, the seat of Faulkner County, is a well-known center of education in central Arkansas. It is home to He...
Conway Confederate Monument
The Conway Confederate Monument, located on the grounds of the Faulkner County Courthouse in Conway, is a comm...
Conway Regional Airport
Opened in 2014, the Conway Regional Airport at Cantrell Field (CRA) is a growing city-owned general aviation a...
Conway Regional Health System
Founded in 1921, Conway Regional Health System (CRHS), anchored by Conway Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Co...
Hope Norman Coulter (1961–)
Little Rock (Pulaski County) author Hope Coulter is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, children’s book au...
Dorris Lafferty Curtis (1908–2006)
Dorris Lafferty Curtis was a nationally recognized folk art painter, author, and songwriter. Compared to folk ...
George Washington Donaghey (1856–1937)
George Washington Donaghey, the twenty-second governor of Arkansas, built a legacy in the state that endures t...
Louis Sharpe Dunaway (1870–1959)
Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to...
Mike Dunaway (1955–2014)
Mike Dunaway suffered a permanent injury to his back playing football for the University of Central Arkansas (...
Albert England (Lynching of)
Albert England, a white man, was lynched on the night of November 2–3, 1895, near Vilonia (Faulkner County)....
Enola (Faulkner County)
Enola is a small community twenty miles northeast of Conway (Faulkner County) at the intersection of Highway 3...
Faulkner County
Faulkner County was one of the last counties formed in the state of Arkansas. Sparsely populated in its early ...
Faulkner County Courthouse
The Faulkner County Courthouse, located at 801 Locust Street in Conway (Faulkner County), consists of brick an...
Faulkner County Historical Society (FCHS)
The Faulkner County Historical Society (FCHS), sponsored by the Conway Chamber of Commerce, was organized on A...
Faulkner County Museum
The Faulkner County Museum is located near the Faulkner County Courthouse at 801 Locust Street in downtown Con...
Archibald Washington (Arch) Ford (1906–1987)
Archibald Washington Ford was commissioner of the Arkansas Department of Education from 1953 until his retirem...