The consumer data marketing company Acxiom began in Conway (Faulkner County) in the late 1960s as Demographics...

Arkansas Christian College (ACC) was a short-lived junior college established in 1889 in Pinnacle Springs (Fau...

In 1992, when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission (AETC) sponsored a debate for candidates in the T...

Arkansas Governor’s School (AGS) is a four-week summer residential program for gifted and talented students ...

Arkansas Holiness College (AHC), founded in 1904, was the focus for a body of Wesleyan holiness believers who ...

The Arkansas Model United Nations (AMUN) is a program located on the campus of the University of Central Arkan...

A public/private economic-development organization, the nonprofit Arkansas Research Alliance (ARA) was establi...

The Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre (AST), Arkansas’s only professional Shakespeare theater company, was origin...

After World War II ended, large numbers of veterans were headed to college on the GI Bill, officially known as...

When Lake Conway was completed in 1951 in the Palarm Creek bottoms of southern Faulkner County, land for the d...

On September 22, 1905, an African-American man named Frank Brown was hanged at Conway (Faulkner County) for an...

Kayle Browning is a world-class markswoman, specializing in trap shooting. She represented the United States i...

The C. D. Wright Women Writers Conference was established in 2017 to focus on women writers, with a special em...

Cadron Creek flows seventy-five miles through central Arkansas. The creek’s headwaters are at Badders Creek,...

Cadron Ridge is a fifty-mile-long formation that runs from Beebe (White County) to the confluence of Cadron Cr...

The Castleberry-Harrington Historic District in Republican (Faulkner County) consists of three Mixed-Masonry h...

Central Baptist College in Conway (Faulkner County) is the only institution of higher education in the state a...

Founded in 1892, Central College operated in Conway (Faulkner County) until 1950, educating female students an...

Conway, the seat of Faulkner County, is a well-known center of education in central Arkansas. It is home to He...

The Conway Confederate Monument, located on the grounds of the Faulkner County Courthouse in Conway, is a comm...

Opened in 2014, the Conway Regional Airport at Cantrell Field (CRA) is a growing city-owned general aviation a...

Founded in 1921, Conway Regional Health System (CRHS), anchored by Conway Regional Medical Center (CRMC) in Co...

Little Rock (Pulaski County) author Hope Coulter is a novelist, short-story writer, poet, children’s book au...

Dorris Lafferty Curtis was a nationally recognized folk art painter, author, and songwriter. Compared to folk ...

George Washington Donaghey, the twenty-second governor of Arkansas, built a legacy in the state that endures t...

Sharpe Dunaway may be the most famous traveling salesman in Arkansas history, a distinction only partly due to...

Mike Dunaway suffered a permanent injury to his back playing football for the University of Central Arkansas (...

Albert England, a white man, was lynched on the night of November 2–3, 1895, near Vilonia (Faulkner County)....

Enola is a small community twenty miles northeast of Conway (Faulkner County) at the intersection of Highway 3...

Faulkner County was one of the last counties formed in the state of Arkansas. Sparsely populated in its early ...