Altus (Franklin County) was incorporated on August 31, 1888. Railroad authorities had named their railhead Alt...

Katharine Susan Anthony was suffragist, feminist, pacifist, socialist, and author of feminist and psychologica...

Arkansas Tech University–Ozark Campus is a two-year college in Ozark (Franklin County) that serves as a sate...

  The city of Branch developed in southern Franklin County around the beginning of the twentieth century ...

Betty Bumpers, wife of former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator Dale Bumpers, was known for her far-reaching ...

Dale Leon Bumpers was one of the state’s most successful politicians in the last half of the twentieth centu...

Charleston is one of the two county seats of Franklin County, along with Ozark. Located south of the Arkansas ...

Much has been written about the Little Rock School District desegregation in 1957. However, the Charleston Pub...

One of several new vineyards in Arkansas, Chateau Aux Arc of Altus (Franklin County) promotes itself as the la...

Denning is a town in southern Franklin County. Its northern border is the southern city limit of Altus (Frankl...

Thomas Edmonds was hanged at Ozark (Franklin County) on May 28, 1880, after being convicted of a murder he wen...

Franklin County, bisected by the Arkansas River into a forested northern section and a southern section primar...

The Franklin County Courthouse for the Northern District, located at 211 West Commercial in Ozark (Franklin Co...

The Franklin County Courthouse for the Southern District, located at 607 East Main Street in Charleston (Frank...

A young man named Gifford was shot to death in the Franklin County jail in Ozark (Franklin County) on December...

Janice Holt Giles was a popular and prolific autobiographer and author of historical fiction, much of which ad...

Francis Irby Gwaltney prospered as an author in the 1950s, writing some of the most significant novels dealing...

Jesse Jones was hanged at Ozark (Franklin County) on December 6, 1895, after being convicted of killing, disme...

William Walker Mansfield was a lawyer, legislator, circuit judge, and associate justice of the Arkansas Suprem...

Florence McRaven of Little Rock (Pulaski County) was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 19...

Oscar Franklin Miller was an Arkansas-born U.S. Army major who achieved national fame during World War I and r...

Mount Bethel Winery in Altus (Franklin County) is the third-oldest winery in the state and is a part of the tr...

Mountain Crest Academy was located seven miles south of Combs (Madison County), just one mile across the Madis...

Founded in 1836, Ozark is one of the state’s oldest cities. Ozark, from the French words “Aux Arc,” mean...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, Ozark (Fr...

Helen Lyle Pettigrew was an author of word puzzles (including crossword puzzles). Her puzzles appeared in news...

Post Familie Vineyards and Winery is located on state Highway 186 in the town of Altus (Franklin County), on t...

William Leon Russell, who served in World War II and the Korean War, ranks as the Arkansas National Guard sold...

The Simple Life is a reality television series broadcast on the Fox network depicting two wealthy young social...