Little River County

Ashdown (Little River County)
Ashdown is located in the far southwestern corner of Arkansas, about nineteen miles north of Texarkana (Miller...
Marion Harland Crank (1915–1994)
Marion Harland Crank was a member of the Arkansas General Assembly for eighteen years; he lost narrowly to Gov...
Jeff Davis (1862–1913)
Jeff Davis was a populist governor who railed against corporations and often resorted to race baiting in his c...
L. Clifford Davis (1924–)
L. Clifford Davis is an attorney whose active participation in the legal challenges of the civil rights moveme...
Foreman (Little River County)
aka: New Rocky Comfort (Little River County)
The city of Foreman, also known as New Rocky Comfort, was at one ti...
Lawrence Olivier Hamilton (1954–2014)
Lawrence Olivier Hamilton was a Broadway star who appeared in such shows as Porgy and Bess, The Wiz, and Jelly...
Silas Herbert Hunt (1922–1949)
Silas Herbert Hunt was a veteran of World War II and a pioneer in the integration of higher education in Arkan...
Aaron Jimerson (Lynching of)
On August 8, 1917, an African-American man named Aaron Jimerson was lynched at Foreman (Little River County) f...
Tracy Lee Lawrence (1968–)
With rural Arkansas beginnings, Tracy Lee Lawrence took Nashville, Tennessee, by storm in the early 1990s to b...
Little River (Southwestern Arkansas)
The Little River rises in the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma, from which point it cuts west and t...
Little River County
Carved out of parts of Sevier County and Hempstead County, Little River County was established in 1867 by an a...
Little River County Courthouse
The Little River County Courthouse is located on Main Street in the heart of Ashdown (Little River County). Th...
Little River County Lynching of 1878
According to a letter published in the Arkansas Gazette on December 1, 1878, a lynching was perpetrated in Lit...
Little River County Race War of 1899
The Little River County Race War occurred in March 1899 in southwestern Arkansas and entailed the murder of a...
Little River News
The Little River News began as a weekly newspaper in Richmond (Little River County) in 1888. It ceased publica...
Doc McClain (Lynching of)
Doc McClain (whose name is sometimes rendered Dock McLain or McLane) was lynched in Ashdown (Little River Coun...
Hosey McCoy (Lynching of)
On March 9, 1902, an African American man named Hosey McCoy was lynched in Little River County for allegedly h...
Millwood Dam and Lake
Millwood Dam, which impounds Millwood Lake on the Little River, was constructed between 1961 and 1966 at a cos...
Millwood State Park
Located just outside of Ashdown (Little River County) in southwest Arkansas, Millwood State Park is known for ...
Charles Mitchell (Lynching of)
On November 2, 1884, Charles Mitchell was murdered near Richmond (Little River County) for the alleged murder ...
Ogden (Little River County)
The city of Ogden is on the highway that connects Fort Smith (Sebastian County) to Texarkana (Miller County). ...
Two Rivers Museum
The Two Rivers Museum, located on the corner of Constitution Avenue (Highway 71) and Main Street in Ashdown (L...
Hazel Leona Walker (1914–1990)
aka: Hazel Walker Crutcher
Recognized as the greatest amateur women’s basketball player of t...
Wilton (Little River County)
Like many of the cities of southwestern Arkansas, Wilton was created alongside railroad development. Although...
Winthrop (Little River County)
Winthrop is located in Little River County, in the extreme southwestern portion of the state of Arkansas. It i...
Winthrop School Museum
The Winthrop School Museum, the location of the former Winthrop School, is located in a two-story brick school...
Joseph Young (Execution of)
On May 25, 1883, a young African American man named Joseph Young was executed in Little River County for an al...