Lawrence County

Alicia (Lawrence County)
Alicia is on the segment of U.S. Highway 67 that has been dubbed Rock ’n’ Roll Highway 67. In addition, th...
Arkansas Egg Men
The Arkansas Egg Men were a notorious band of chicken thieves who ruffled plenty of feathers in northeast Arka...
Bagley-Ridgeway Feud
“Officer Uses a Pistol Fatally,” an Arkansas Gazette headline stated on March 5, 1905. The incident that l...
Stopover of the Beatles
In 1964, the world’s most popular music group, the Beatles, visited the Lawrence County town of Walnut Ridge...
Bethel Cemetery (Lawrence County)
aka: Old Bethel Cemetery
Bethel Cemetery, named after the nearby extinct Bethel Church, is l...
Black River
The Black River has played a significant, but shifting, role in the lives of residents of northeast Arkansas. ...
Black Rock (Lawrence County)
The city of Black Rock in Lawrence County is situated on the Black River at the edge of the Ozark Mountains. I...
Clover Bend Historic District
aka: Clover Bend (Lawrence County)
The Clover Bend community in southeast Lawrence County was the site...
College City (Lawrence County)
College City of Lawrence County consisted of the campus of Williams Baptist College (now Williams Baptist Uni...
James T. Conway (1947–)
James T. Conway served for forty years in the United States Marine Corps, culminating with his service as thir...
Denton (Lawrence County)
In the mid-1830s, at the intersection of the Powhatan-Smithville Road and Military Road, one of Lawrence Count...
Driftwood (Lawrence County)
Driftwood is a historic African-American community located in Morgan Township on Highway 361 about four miles ...
Dock Driver (Execution of)
Dock Driver was hanged at Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County) on January 31, 1913, for murdering a town marshal the...
Ficklin-Imboden Log House
The Ficklin-Imboden Log House, located in Powhatan (Lawrence Country), is considered the earliest house repres...
Paul Miller Graham (1903–1976)
Paul Miller Graham was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County). ...
Hoxie (Lawrence County)
Hoxie is located in Lawrence County in northeast Arkansas. The town garnered national attention in 1955 when i...
Desegregation of Hoxie Schools
During the summer and autumn of 1955, proponents and opponents of school integration across America were watch...
Imboden (Lawrence County)
Imboden, a small town located in the northwest corner of Lawrence County, was founded in the early 1880s on a ...
Gordon Kahl (Shooting of)
aka: Smithville Shootout
Gordon Kahl was a North Dakota farmer and World War II veteran who,...
Helen Martin King (1895–1988)
Helen Martin King was one of Arkansas’s most unique artists, developing the almost-forgotten craft of rug ho...
Lake Charles State Park
When Lake Charles State Park was constructed in the 1960s, it was the first of its kind and size in the nation...
Lawrence County
The “Mother of Counties,” Lawrence County once covered a majority of northern Arkansas, an enormous stretc...
Lawrence County Courthouse
The Lawrence County Courthouse is located in Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County), within the city’s commercial di...
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence Memorial Hospital opened in Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County) on June 1, 1960, becoming the largest empl...
Elijah (Eli) Lindsey (1797–1834)
The Reverend Elijah (Eli) Lindsey was an important figure in early Arkansas Methodism. At age eighteen, living...
Lynn (Lawrence County)
Lynn is a town on State Highway 25 in western Lawrence County. Although the area has long been settled, the po...
Minturn (Lawrence County)
Minturn is a town on U.S. Highway 67 in Lawrence County. Created as a railroad depot, the town prospered while...
Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives (NEARA)
The Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives (NEARA) is one of two regional branches of the Arkansas State Archive...
Portia (Lawrence County)
The area that became the town of Portia in the late nineteenth century was home to some of Arkansas’s earlie...
Powhatan (Lawrence County)
Powhatan was the Lawrence County seat of government for almost ninety-five years. Founded in the early ninetee...
Powhatan Courthouse
The Powhatan Historic Courthouse is located in the Powhatan Historic State Park, a stretch of a nineteenth-cen...
Powhatan Historic State Park
Powhatan Historic State Park preserves a small nineteenth-century river port town in Lawrence County, once a h...