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Single story red brick building with large sign advertising cafe and motel

Group of white men and women sitting in chairs indoors

Arkansas State Archives

"Officer uses a pistol fatally" newspaper clipping

Bagley-Ridgeway Feud Article

grid photo of four young white men

"Beatles stop in Arkansas yea yea but only briefly" newspaper clipping

Beatles Stopover Article

"Unfriendly Beatles bug in and out of Walnut Ridge" newspaper clipping

Beatles Stopover Article

Shadows of four men walking with fake city street background display

Beatles Sculpture at Walnut Ridge

Stone monuments and gravestones in rural cemetery with green field next to it and car on driveway

Bethel Cemetery

Street scene with brick buildings and blue skies

Flooded rock quarry surrounded by trees

Black Rock Quarry

Multiple story brick building with cupola on top and trees in front yard and people sitting on front steps

Black Rock School

Metal arch frame "Welcome to Black Rock Home of the Zebras" sign with smaller church and Lion's club signs on it

Black Rock Sign

Multistory brick buildings on either side of dirt road with power lines crossing overhead

Black Rock Street Scene

"Blue law blues are on at Walnut Ridge" newspaper clipping

Blue Law Closings

One and two story brick buildings beside railroad tracks

Steel and concrete river bridge with overgrown embankment and trees

Cache River Bridge

Steel arch bridge with concrete platform and supports

Cache River Bridge

Graves in overgrown cemetery with limestone ledgers and tombstones

Campbell Cemetery

Multistory building with covered porch and white siding on grass

Clover Bend Historic District

Blue and white "Welcome College City city limit" sign

College City Sign

Industrial buildings with smokestack and water tower and rail line in foreground

Cotton Oil Plant

Multiple story wooden buildings with man and horses standing in front "Sam Coy Feel and Sale Barn"

Coy Feed and Sale Barn

White man with dark beard in suit jacket and white shirt signed "as ever your friend John Crawford"

Street scene with men

D. Bloom's Mercantile

Green "Denton" sign on two-lane road

Single-story brick and glass library building and trees with walking path

Felix Goodson Library

Log cabin with brick chimney

Ficklin-Imboden Log House

Middle-aged white woman in fancy dress

Older white man with glasses in suit sitting at his desk with box full of papers in front of him

Steam train with cars arriving at multistory depot building with patrons in rail yard

Damaged multistory building with debris and people and car

Hoxie Tornado, 1927

Group school photo with matching white girls and one black girl on bleachers below flag

Hoxie Glee Club

Single and multistory buildings on street with power lines

Hoxie Street Scene

Railroad tracks with town buildings and cars in the background

Three-story brick church with stairs and sign

Imboden United Methodist Church

old faded photo of river with trees in the foreground and town in the background

Aerial view of flooded town

Brick storefronts and power lines on town road

Imboden Street Scene

people on beach by a lake

Lake Charles State Park

map outlining Arkansas counties with red pin in northeast quadrant

Lake Charles State Park: Park Location

Single-story building with covered entrance and steps on street

Lawrence County Courthouse

Close-up of "Lawrence County Courthouse" covered entrance with glass doors on steps with railings

Lawrence County Courthouse

Single-story brick building with tall narrow windows and grounds

Lawrence County Courthouse

"Lawrence County" map with borders roads cities waterways

Lawrence County Map

Portrait painting white man curly hair military uniform stock tie gold embroidered suit smiling

White woman with curly hair in uniform posing with advertisements for the Red Cross

Single-story brick building with arched windows and parking lot

Gravestones in heavily forested area

Oaks Little Africa Cemetery

Men logs and boat on water with trees along the shoreline

Single story wooden building beside railroad tracks

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