Rear Admiral Edward Baxter Billingsley was a decorated naval officer and veteran of World War II who went on t...

The unincorporated community of Boswell is located in the White River valley on the western boundary of Izard ...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the many government programs designed to help combat the econo...

The Brockwell Gospel Music School offers instruction in choral and instrumental musical techniques for those w...

Calico Rock, located on the White River in Izard County, developed as a steamboat landing originally known as ...

The Calico Rock Historic District covers the first block of Calico Rock (Izard County) up from the White Rive...

The Calico Rock Home Economics Building, located on Second Street in Calico Rock (Izard County), was built in ...

The Calico Rock Museum and Visitor Center, which was formally dedicated on April 12, 2014, occupies two of the...

Sarah Esther Case was the first woman from Arkansas to be called as a foreign missionary by the Methodist Epis...

John Chisum was one of the last thirty surviving Civil War veterans, the last surviving Arkansas-born Confeder...

John William (Bill) Dark was a bushwhacker in north-central Arkansas during the Civil War. From June 1862 to J...

During the height of the great string band era of the 1920s, one of the largest and most popular string bands ...

Forty-Four (sometimes spelled without the hyphen) in Union Township of Izard County is a historic community on...

The town of Franklin is one of the oldest settlements in Izard County. Located on State Highway 56, it is just...

Gid is an unincorporated historic community in Gid Township of Izard County. Gid is located on Arkansas Highwa...

Guion, located on the east bank of the White River in Izard County, was home to some of the area’s first set...

Ransom Gulley was an educator, lawyer, entrepreneur, and politician who lived much of his life in Independence...

Samuel Billingsley Hill was an Arkansas-born politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress fo...

Horseshoe Bend is the only city in Arkansas that includes land from three counties within its city limits. The...

In the nineteenth century, Izard County served as a gateway to settlement across northern Arkansas and was the...

The Izard County Courthouse is located off Highway 69. It joins adjacent streets of Lunen, Court, and Spring t...

Discussions concerning the formation of a historical society for Izard County began in the summer of 1969 afte...

A tornado tore through north-central Arkansas on November 21, 1883, killing around eleven people, injuring doz...

Jehoiada Jeffery and his family are believed to have been the first permanent settlers in Izard County.�...

Robert E. Jeffery Jr. was a descendent of one of the earliest families to settle in north–central Arkans...

The community of LaCrosse in the twenty-first century is practically a ghost town, with only a few occupied ho...

The LaCrosse Collegiate Institute was established in 1868 by Michael Shelby Kennard, under the name LaCrosse M...

The unincorporated community of Lunenburg, located on Rocky Bayou approximately four miles south of the Izard ...

By the winter of 1863, much of Izard County was overrun by lawless bands of bushwhackers and guerrillas. Late ...