Samuel Adams served as acting governor of Arkansas from April 29, 1844, to November 9, 1844. As president of t...

Thomas Boles was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Third District o...

One of several farmers’ organizations formed in Arkansas during the early 1880s, the Brothers of Freedom ori...

  In the autumn of 1863, Colonel Joseph O. Shelby launched a raid from Arkansas into his home state of Mi...

The Bunch-Walton Post 22 American Legion Hut in Clarksville (Johnson County), a two-story, native-stone struct...

William Lee Cazort was a familiar figure in Arkansas politics throughout the 1920s and 1930s. He served severa...

Clarksville is located on Spadra Creek, north of the Arkansas River. Although not on the banks of the river, a...

The Clarksville Confederate Monument, located in the south-central section of Oakland Memorial Cemetery in Cla...

The Clarksville High School Home Economics Building in Clarksville (Johnson County) was a one-story Craftsman-...

Built in 1930, the Clarksville National Guard Armory at 309 College Street is an Art Deco–style building con...

As Federal outposts were created across the state throughout the Civil War, Union commanders had to patrol the...

Clarksville (Johnson County), located on the north side of the Arkansas River, was a prosperous town on the mi...

For a short time in the late nineteenth century, Coal Hill, located on U.S. Highway 64 in western Johnson Coun...

In the spring of 1888, the coal mining operations in Johnson County, worked by convict leased labor, were the ...

Jordan Edgar Cravens was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Third Di...

The city of Hartman, eleven miles west of Clarksville (Johnson County) on U.S. Highway 64, was settled by Germ...

Zilphia Mae Johnson Horton was an influential educator, folklorist, musician, and social justice activist who ...

Johnson County has been the location of much of the state’s coal mining as well as one of the centers of the...

The Johnson County Courthouse, built in the 1930s, is located on the corner of Fulton and Main streets in down...

Four men were hanged together on June 22, 1883, in Clarksville (Johnson County) for a botched train robbery in...

The Johnson County Historical Society is an organization with a mission “to promote individual and general i...

The Johnson County Peach Festival arose from the area’s successful peach industry, which got its start in t...

In an event that was described by several newspapers as a lynching, an African-American man named Charles Jone...

On May 10, 1901, an African-American man named Lee Key was shot by a masked mob near Knoxville (Johnson County...

Knoxville is a city in southeastern Johnson County, close to Lake Dardanelle. Originally developed as a railro...

Lamar is a second-class city in the Arkansas River Valley and the Interstate 40 corridor. Located a few miles ...

Matthew Lyon, a six-term congressman who represented first Vermont and later Kentucky, was an iconic figure in...

Ralphie D. May was a stand-up comedian famous for his topical humor combined with hip-hop slang and Southern c...

Isaac McCracken played a prominent role in the farmers’ and labor movements in Arkansas (and, to a lesser d...