On July 30, 1917, an African-American man named Andrew Avery was lynched for allegedly attacking a levee contr...

The Barlow Hotel at 102 South Elm Street in Hope (Hempstead County) was, for more than seventy-five years, the...

Big Arkie was a thirteen-foot-long alligator caught in 1952 near Hope (Hempstead County). He was the Little Ro...

An unincorporated community in Mine Creek Township, Bingen (Hempstead County) is located about four miles n...

Helen Marie Long Bittick was an artist of the “primitive folk style,” meaning that she had no academic art...

James Black, popularly known as the maker of the bowie knife, was one of the early pioneers of Arkansas and se...

  Blevins is a second-class city located in the northeastern corner of Hempstead County on U.S. Highway 3...

Frances (Fanny) Block was the matriarch of the first documented Jewish family to immigrate to what became the ...

Kelly Bryant was a Democratic politician in the 1960s and 1970s. He has long been identified as the first of t...

Vertie Lee Glasgow Carter was a renowned educator whose doctorate in education paved her way into previously u...

Columbus is an unincorporated community in Hempstead County, on State Highway 73. Along with Washington (Hemps...

Edward Cross, who was born in Tennessee and reared in Kentucky, practiced law briefly in eastern Tennessee as ...

On January 18, 1909, a young African American man was lynched in Hope (Hempstead County) for an attempted assa...

Melinda Dillon was an American actress who appeared in dozens of movies, plays, and television shows. She was ...

The Dooley’s Ferry Fortifications Historic District features a series of redoubts and trenches that Confeder...

Vincent Walker Foster Jr. was a prominent Little Rock (Pulaski County) lawyer and close friend and associate o...

George Frazier was a well-known business, civic, and political leader in Hope (Hempstead County) for six and a...

Fulton is a town on the northern bank of the Red River in southern Hempstead County. It is one of the earliest...

Edward W. Gantt became one of southwestern Arkansas’s leading politicians in the Civil War era. He pushed fo...

Rufus King Garland was a prominent Arkansas politician who voted for secession and briefly held the rank of ca...

Claud Wilton Garner was a man of many interests and talents. He began as a musician, became a merchant and an ...

The Goodlett Gin is located at 799 Franklin Street in Historic Washington State Park in Washington (Hempstead ...

Lawyer and politician James Houston Gunter Jr. was a prosecutor and judge for thirty-six years in the late twe...

Oren Harris served as prosecuting attorney of Arkansas’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit (1937–1940) and in th...

Haygood Seminary in Washington (Hempstead County) was established in 1883 as one of the first schools for Afri...

Hempstead County, located in the southwest corner of the state, was organized in 1818, before Congress establi...

Henry’s Chapel was a log church built at Mound Prairie (Hempstead County) around 1817 by Methodist pioneers...