Alicia is on the segment of U.S. Highway 67 (now Interstate 57) that has been dubbed Rock ’n’ Roll Highway...

The Arkansas Egg Men were a notorious band of chicken thieves who ruffled plenty of feathers in northeast Arka...

“Officer Uses a Pistol Fatally,” an Arkansas Gazette headline stated on March 5, 1905. The incident that l...

In 1964, the world’s most popular music group, the Beatles, visited the Lawrence County town of Walnut Ridge...

The Bell Foley Dam Project was an unrealized construction effort in the 1970s to dam the Strawberry River and ...

The Black River has played a significant, but shifting, role in the lives of residents of northeast Arkansas. ...

The city of Black Rock in Lawrence County is situated on the Black River at the edge of the Ozark Mountains. I...

College City of Lawrence County consisted of the campus of Williams Baptist College (now Williams Baptist Uni...

James T. Conway served for forty years in the United States Marine Corps, culminating with his service as thir...

In the mid-1830s, at the intersection of the Powhatan-Smithville Road and Military Road, one of Lawrence Count...

Driftwood is a historic African-American community located in Morgan Township on Highway 361 about four miles ...

Dock Driver was hanged at Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County) on January 31, 1913, for murdering a town marshal the...

The Ficklin-Imboden Log House, located in Powhatan (Lawrence Country), is considered the earliest house repres...

Paul Miller Graham was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County). ...

Hoxie is located in Lawrence County in northeast Arkansas. The town garnered national attention in 1955 when i...

During the summer and autumn of 1955, proponents and opponents of school integration across America were watch...

Imboden, a small town located in the northwest corner of Lawrence County, was founded in the early 1880s on a ...

Helen Martin King was one of Arkansas’s most unique artists, developing the almost-forgotten craft of rug ho...

When Lake Charles State Park was constructed in the 1960s, it was the first of its kind and size in the nation...

The “Mother of Counties,” Lawrence County once covered a majority of northern Arkansas, an enormous stretc...

The Lawrence County Courthouse is located in Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County), within the city’s commercial di...

Lawrence Memorial Hospital opened in Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County) on June 1, 1960, becoming the largest empl...

The Reverend Elijah (Eli) Lindsey was an important figure in early Arkansas Methodism. At age eighteen, living...

Lynn is a town on State Highway 25 in western Lawrence County. Although the area has long been settled, the po...

Minturn is a town on Interstate 57 (previously U.S. Highway 67) in Lawrence County. Created as a railroad depo...

The Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives (NEARA) is one of two regional branches of the Arkansas State Archive...

The area that became the town of Portia in the late nineteenth century was home to some of Arkansas’s earlie...

Powhatan was the Lawrence County seat of government for almost ninety-five years. Founded in the early ninetee...

The Powhatan Historic Courthouse is located in the Powhatan Historic State Park, a stretch of a nineteenth-cen...