Henry Allen was lynched in Jacksonport (Jackson County) on September 10, 1881, three days after he stabbed a m...

Louis Allwhite, a white man, was lynched just outside of Newport (Jackson County) on December 31, 1904, for ha...

Amagon is a town in southern Jackson County on Highway 14. It is best known as the birthplace of Mike Beebe, A...

Arkansas State University–Newport (ASUN) is a comprehensive, two-year accredited college providing college t...

Auvergne of Jackson County is a small unincorporated community located about ten miles southeast of Newport (J...

Velvet James (Jim) “Bad News” Barnes was an American basketball player and Olympic gold medalist originall...

A veteran of state government, Mickey Dale (Mike) Beebe was inaugurated as Arkansas’s forty-fifth governor o...

Beedeville is a town in southeastern Jackson County. It is located on State Highway 37 near the Cache River. S...

Pickens W. Black Sr. was one of the most remarkable African-American agriculturalists in northeast Arkansas in...

Jerry Blalock, a young gambler, was hanged at Jacksonport (Jackson County) on May 12, 1883, for a killing he c...

On August 2, 1887, a white man named Leonard Boyd was lynched outside of Jacksonport (Jackson County) for havi...

On May 28, 1862, a reconnaissance under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hiram F. Sickles of the Ninth Illino...

The steamboat Cambridge was carrying a regiment of Confederate soldiers on the White River when it struck a sn...

Campbell Station—originally known only as Campbell—is a city in Jackson County located along the Union Pac...

Abe Chambers was hanged at Newport (Jackson County) on January 21, 1887, for the murder of a young African Ame...

Coal fields in Arkansas are located in the Arkansas River Valley between the western border of the state and R...

Cornelius Robinson Coffey was the first African American to establish an aeronautical school in the United St...

On October 25, 1914, a mob in Newport (Jackson County) took an African-American man named Howard Davis from co...

The city of Diaz, created by the railroad industry in the late nineteenth century, is just north of Newport ...

Elgin is located on Jackson County Road 64 about six miles west-southwest of Tuckerman (Jackson County) and ab...

Elizabeth (sometimes called Elizabethtown) thrived as a port on the White River and became the seat of Jackson...

Lucien Coatsworth Gause was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the First...

Josephine Hutson Graham was a prolific artist, educator, author, and folklorist of Arkansas’s White River cu...

The city of Grubbs is in eastern Jackson County, near the Cache River. Founded as an agricultural center, the...

Robert Drennen (Bob) Harvey was a farmer and lawyer in Jackson County who spent thirty-two years in the Arkans...

Kaneaster Hodges Jr. served as a Democratic interim U.S. senator representing Arkansas from December 10, 1977,...

On October 6, 1885, an African-American man named Hunley (or Hunly) was murdered for an alleged attack on a yo...

Jackson County is in northeastern Arkansas. Although the land rises somewhat in the west, most of the county i...