Howard County

Luenell Batson (1959–)
aka: Luenell
aka: Luenell Campbell
Luenell, who goes by only her first name professionally, is a comed...
Center Point (Howard County)
Center Point was the first county seat of Howard County, serving in that capacity from 1873 until 1905. Althou...
Corinth (Howard County)
Corinth, named for the local Church of Christ, was originally known as Wilton Settlement. The unincorporated c...
Miller Davis (Execution of)
On some occasions, the names of individuals who were legally executed find their way onto lists of lynching vi...
William Henry (Willie) Davis (1940–2010)
William Henry (Willie) Davis was a professional baseball player who spent eighteen years in the major leagues...
Dierks (Howard County)
The city of Dierks in Howard County rose to prominence due to the thriving timber industry of the early twenti...
Herman Dierks (1863–1946)
Herman Dierks was the co-founder and two-time president of the Dierks Lumber and Coal Company, supervising its...
William Thomas Dillard (1914–2002)
William Thomas Dillard was the founder of Dillard’s, Inc., one of the nation’s largest fashion apparel and...
Duckett (Howard County)
Duckett, in the Ouachita Mountains in northern Howard County, was never a population center so much as a commu...
Duckett Ford (Howard County)
aka: Duckett Crossing (Howard County)
Duckett Ford (a.k.a. Duckett Crossing) was one of nearly a dozen pl...
Duckett Township Lynching of 1919
On Wednesday, August 10, 1919, an unknown African American man was killed by an unnamed officer in Duckett Tow...
Joycelyn Elders (1933–)
aka: Minnie Lee Jones
Joycelyn Elders was director of the Arkansas Department of Health a...
John Lewis Ferguson (1926–2006)
John Lewis Ferguson—historian, minister, author, archival administer, and historic preservationist—served ...
Garrett Whiteside Hall
Garrett Whiteside Hall, located at the corner of North Third Avenue and Lockesburg Street in Nashville (Howard...
Lathe Hembree (Execution of)
Lathe Hembree was hanged on July 25, 1902, at Center Point (Howard County) for a murder he denied committing. ...
Howard County
Howard County encompasses the Ouachita Mountains to the north and the Coastal Plain to the south. It was creat...
Howard County Courthouse
The Howard County Courthouse is located on 421 North Main Street. It stands at the gateway of downtown Nashvil...
Howard County Race Riot of 1883
aka: Hempstead County Race Riot of 1883
The Howard County Race Riot occurred along the Howard and Hempstead...
Howard County Reported Lynching of 1894
Brief accounts of lynchings sometimes appeared in newspapers across the country but were later corrected or co...
Myra Dell McLarey (1942–)
Howard County native Myra Dell McLarey is a teacher and an author of a wide variety of works, many influenced ...
Mineral Springs (Howard County)
Mineral Springs is the second-largest city in Howard County. The springs for which it was named were once tout...
Mineral Springs Waterworks
The Mineral Springs Waterworks, located south of the junction of West Runnels and South Hall streets in Minera...
Nashville (Howard County)
Nashville is the county seat of Howard County in southwest Arkansas. A regional center for agriculture and tra...
Nashville Commercial Historic District
The Nashville Commercial Historic District is located in Nashville (Howard County) and includes a total of fif...
Nashville Post Office
The Nashville Post Office in Nashville (Howard County) is a single-story, brick-masonry structure designed in ...
Nashville Sauropod Trackway
The Nashville sauropod trackway, which may be the largest dinosaur trackway in the world, was located near Nas...
Okay (Howard County)
Until the late 1980s, the town of Okay in Howard County was home to a major limestone mining operation located...
Eurith Dickinson (E. D.) Rivers (1895–1967)
Eurith Dickinson (E. D.) Rivers was an important political figure in the American South. From the 1920s to the...
Robert Glenn Shaver (1831–1915)
Robert Glenn Shaver was a former Confederate officer who raised Arkansas troops for the war, a commander who w...
Tollette (Howard County)
Tollette is a largely African-American town on State Highway 355 in southwestern Howard County. In the 2010 ce...
Jimmy Wakely (1914–1982)
Jimmy Wakely, an American country and western singer and actor from the 1930s through the 1950s, made several ...
Parker Westbrook (1926–2015)
Parker Westbrook was an advocate for historic preservation in Arkansas throughout the late twentieth century. ...