Lonoke County

All Souls Church
All Souls Church at 4601 Walkers Corner Road in Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke counties) is a Gothic Revival–styl...
Allport (Lonoke County)
Allport is a town on Highway 165 in southern Lonoke County located two miles west of Humnoke (Lonoke County). ...
Austin (Lonoke County)
Austin is a second-class city situated in northern Lonoke County. The railroad was responsible for moving the ...
Lynching of the Biscoe Family
In early February 1892, Hamp Biscoe (or Bisco), his pregnant wife, and his thirteen-year-old son were killed i...
Roark Bradford (1896–1948)
Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford was a popular journalist, novelist, and short story writer of the twentieth c...
William Claude Bradford (1885–1926)
William Claude Bradford served as assistant adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard and an officer of ...
"Footsie" Britt (1919–1995)
aka: Maurice Lee Britt
aka: Morris Britt
Maurice Lee “Footsie” Britt was an Arkansas native who rose to ...
Terri Utley Amos Britt (1961–)
Terri Britt, who was Terri Utley at the time, was named Miss Arkansas USA in 1982, going on to win the title o...
Brownsville (Lonoke County)
Brownsville served as the county seat of Prairie County for approximately twenty-two years. Located on the Mem...
Scout from Brownsville (January 17–19, 1864)
A party of Union soldiers from Brownsville (Lonoke County) headed north on January 17, 1864, to connect with t...
Skirmish at Brownsville (August 25, 1863)
A brief and inconsequential engagement during the Federal campaign to take Little Rock (Pulaski County), this ...
Skirmish at Brownsville (July 13–14, 1864)
  On July 13, 1864, a detachment of Confederate forces from Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby’s comman...
Henry Burnett (Execution of)
Henry Burnett was a young African American man hanged near Lonoke (Lonoke County) on August 27, 1885, for the ...
Butlerville Lynching of 1882
On June 1, 1882, three African Americans named Joseph Earl, Taylor Washington, and Thomas Humphreys were hange...
Cabot (Lonoke County)
In 2009, BusinessWeek designated the northern Lonoke County city of Cabot as an “Arkansas boomtown” and li...
Cabotfest
Cabotfest, an annual celebration hosted by the city of Cabot (Lonoke County), was first held in 1978 to commem...
Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery
Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery, located approximately four miles southeast of Cabot (Lonoke County), is the ...
Carlisle (Lonoke County)
Carlisle, a bedroom community outside the metropolitan area of Little Rock (Pulaski County), lays claim to bei...
Carlisle Independent
The Carlisle Independent, based in Carlisle (Lonoke County), began in 1905 under Thomas P. Young. Young worked...
Carver Gymnasium
The Carver Gymnasium, located at 400 Ferguson Street in Lonoke (Lonoke County), is the last remaining structur...
Sam Cates (Lynching of)
On September 12, 1917, a twenty-five-year-old African-American man named Sam Cates was lynched near England (L...
Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton (1922–1990)
Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton was an early pioneer in professional basketball, playing in the National Ba...
Coy (Lonoke County)
The story of Coy is the same as that of many rural Arkansas communities that have almost disappeared since the...
Daddy and Them
Daddy and Them is a comedy-drama written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton that stars Thornton and Laura Dern...
Dairyman's Bank Building
The Dairyman’s Bank Building located in Carlisle (Lonoke County) was constructed around 1901. Established as...
Alford Davis (Lynching of)
In early January 1894, Alford “Alf” Davis, an African American man, was hanged by a mob in Lonoke County f...
Paul Dean (1913–1981)
aka: Paul Dee "Daffy" Dean
Like his brother, Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean, Paul Dee “Daffy” ...
Skirmish near Dudley Lake (December 16, 1864)
aka: Scout from Brownsville (December 15–18, 1864)
The December 16, 1964, Skirmish near Dudley Lake took place during ...
Eagle Murders of 1873
On November 6, 1873, George Alexander “Dock” Eagle, his son Will, and his nephew Robert J. (R. J.) Eagle w...
Eagle-Booe Feud
On April 25, 1898, three men were shot to death in Lonoke (Lonoke County). These killings—and the conflicts ...
Eberts Training Field
Established next to the town of Lonoke in 1917, during World War I, Eberts Field ranked second among aviation ...
England (Lonoke County)
England is a small farming community located in the southeastern part of Lonoke County. While England has a ri...