Ashdown is located in the far southwestern corner of Arkansas, about nineteen miles north of Texarkana (Miller...

Marion Harland Crank was a member of the Arkansas General Assembly for eighteen years; he lost narrowly to Gov...

Jeff Davis was a populist governor who railed against corporations and often resorted to race baiting in his c...

L. Clifford Davis was an attorney whose active participation in the legal challenges of the civil rights movem...

Lawrence Olivier Hamilton was a Broadway star who appeared in such shows as Porgy and Bess, The Wiz, and Jelly...

Silas Herbert Hunt was a veteran of World War II and a pioneer in the integration of higher education in Arkan...

On August 8, 1917, an African-American man named Aaron Jimerson was lynched at Foreman (Little River County) f...

With rural Arkansas beginnings, Tracy Lee Lawrence took Nashville, Tennessee, by storm in the early 1990s to b...

The Little River rises in the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, from which point it cuts west and t...

Carved out of parts of Sevier County and Hempstead County, Little River County was established in 1867 by an a...

The Little River County Courthouse is located on Main Street in the heart of Ashdown (Little River County). Th...

According to a letter published in the Arkansas Gazette on December 1, 1878, a lynching was perpetrated in Lit...

The Little River County Race War occurred in March 1899 in southwestern Arkansas and entailed the murder of a...

The Little River News began as a weekly newspaper in Richmond (Little River County) in 1888. It ceased publica...

Doc McClain (whose name is sometimes rendered Dock McLain or McLane) was lynched in Ashdown (Little River Coun...

On March 9, 1902, an African American man named Hosey McCoy was lynched in Little River County for allegedly h...

Millwood Dam, which impounds Millwood Lake on the Little River, was constructed between 1961 and 1966 at a cos...

Located just outside of Ashdown (Little River County) in southwest Arkansas, Millwood State Park is known for ...

On November 2, 1884, Charles Mitchell was murdered near Richmond (Little River County) for the alleged murder ...

The city of Ogden is on the highway that connects Fort Smith (Sebastian County) to Texarkana (Miller County). ...

Helen Faye Parker was a legendary high school basketball coach and athletic administrator in Ashdown (Little R...

The Two Rivers Museum, located on the corner of Constitution Avenue (Highway 71) and Main Street in Ashdown (L...

Like many of the cities of southwestern Arkansas, Wilton was created alongside railroad development. Although...

Winthrop is located in Little River County, in the extreme southwestern portion of the state of Arkansas. It i...

The Winthrop School Museum, the location of the former Winthrop School, is located in a two-story brick school...

On May 25, 1883, a young African American man named Joseph Young was executed in Little River County for an al...