Lafayette County

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Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
aka: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned bestselling author, po...
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Stephen Fuller Austin (1793–1836)
Stephen Fuller Austin, most widely known as the “Father of Texas,” spent a short period of his life in Ark...
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Battle Mound Site
The Battle Mound site is a Caddo site located along the Red River in Lafayette County. The Red River landscape...
"State Bar honors Justice Battle" newspaper clipping
Burrill Bunn Battle (1838–1917)
Burrill Bunn Battle was a prominent Arkansas attorney and jurist in the latter decades of the nineteenth centu...
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Bradley (Lafayette County)
The city of Bradley, located near Conway Cemetery State Park in Lafayette County, has been a center for agricu...
"Lafayette County" map with borders roads cities waterways
Buckner (Lafayette County)
Buckner is a town in northern Lafayette County, a few miles east of Stamps (Lafayette County) on U.S. Highway ...
"Twenty Negroes Wounded" newspaper clipping
Canfield Race War of 1896
On Saturday, December 12, 1896, African American workers at the Canfield Lumber Company in the small lumber to...
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Conway Cemetery State Park
Conway Cemetery State Park, near Walnut Hill (Lafayette County) in southwest Arkansas, preserves a half-acre c...
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James Sevier Conway (1796–1855)
James Sevier Conway was the first governor for the state of Arkansas, elected in 1836 through strong family ti...
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Polly Conway (1809–1878)
aka: Mary Jane Bradley Conway
Mary Jane “Polly” Bradley Conway, the wife of Arkansas’s firs...
"Judge Lynch" newspaper clipping
George Crenshaw (Lynching of)
On September 2 or 3, 1885, an African American man named George Crenshaw was taken from jail and hanged by a m...
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Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers (1883–1965)
Beulah Lee Sampson Flowers was an African-American educator, community leader, political activist, and busines...
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William Harold Flowers (1911–1990)
William Harold Flowers was a lawyer, minister, social and political activist, and one of the leading figures i...
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Lafayette County
Lafayette County has always been important to the history of Arkansas, but it was particularly so from its fir...
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Lafayette County Courthouse
The Lafayette County Courthouse is an early 1940s-era Art Deco building built with funds from the Works Progr...
Lafayette County Lynching of 1859
On May 23, 1859, an unidentified fugitive slave belonging to David E. Dixon of Lafayette County was hanged in ...
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Lewisville (Lafayette County)
Lewisville is the county seat of Lafayette County. Settled about the time that Arkansas became a state, but re...
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Henry Moore Sr. (1844–1922)
Attorney and planter Henry Moore Sr. made his home in southwestern Arkansas and northeastern Texas and was a p...
"Gubernatorial Contest" newspaper clipping
Charles M. Norwood (1840–1920)
Charles M. Norwood ran for governor in Arkansas in 1888 as the candidate of the Union Labor Party (ULP). Altho...
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Oil Industry
The oil industry in Arkansas, which includes exploration and the production, refinement, and distribution of p...
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P. D. Burton House
The 1916 Craftsman-style P. D. Burton House, located at 305 Chestnut Street in Lewisville (Lafayette County), ...
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Tilman Bacon Parks (1872–1950)
Tilman Bacon Parks was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Seventh Di...
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William Pratt "Buck" Parks (1843–1907)
William Pratt “Buck” Parks was a captain of a heavy artillery battery at the Battle of Vicksburg in Missis...
"Mob kills slayer of Sheriff's aide" newspaper clipping
Charles Powell (Lynching of)
On August 11, 1926, an African-American man named Charles Powell was lynched near Lewisville (Lafayette County...
"Lynching Near Bradley" newspaper clipping
Frank Robertson (Lynching of)
There is much confusion about the lynching of alleged arsonist Frank Robertson, which occurred in late March 1...
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V. V. Smith (1842–1897)
aka: Volney Voltaire Smith
The last Reconstruction Republican lieutenant governor, known for a...
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Stamps (Lafayette County)
Stamps was developed late in the nineteenth century as a lumber town situated on the railroad. The childhood ...
"Two Negresses shot by unknown" newspaper clipping
Taylor Sisters (Lynching of)
Two African-American women known only as the Taylor sisters were killed on Sunday, March 17, 1907, in McKamie ...
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USS Lafayette County (LST-859)
The USS Lafayette County (LST-859) was a tank landing ship that saw service in World War II and the Korean War...