All Souls Church at 4601 Walkers Corner Road in Scott (Pulaski and Lonoke counties) is a Gothic Revival–styl...

Allport is a town on Highway 165 in southern Lonoke County located two miles west of Humnoke (Lonoke County). ...

Austin is a second-class city situated in northern Lonoke County. The railroad was responsible for moving the ...

In early February 1892, Hamp Biscoe (or Bisco), his pregnant wife, and his thirteen-year-old son were killed i...

Jonas (sometimes called Joe) Bogard was a Black man hanged at Lonoke (Lonoke County) on August 27, 1884, after...

Roark Whitney Wickliffe Bradford was a popular journalist, novelist, and short story writer of the twentieth c...

William Claude Bradford served as assistant adjutant general of the Arkansas National Guard and an officer of ...

Terri Britt, who was Terri Utley at the time, was named Miss Arkansas USA in 1982, going on to win the title o...

Brownsville served as the county seat of Prairie County for approximately twenty-two years. Located on the Mem...

A party of Union soldiers from Brownsville (Lonoke County) headed north on January 17, 1864, to connect with t...

A brief and inconsequential engagement during the Federal campaign to take Little Rock (Pulaski County), this ...

  On July 13, 1864, a detachment of Confederate forces from Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby’s comman...

Henry Burnett was a young African American man hanged near Lonoke (Lonoke County) on August 27, 1885, for the ...

On June 1, 1882, three African Americans named Joseph Earl, Taylor Washington, and Thomas Humphreys were hange...

In 2009, BusinessWeek designated the northern Lonoke County city of Cabot as an “Arkansas boomtown” and li...

Cabotfest, an annual celebration hosted by the city of Cabot (Lonoke County), was first held in 1978 to commem...

Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery, located approximately four miles southeast of Cabot (Lonoke County), is the ...

Carlisle, a bedroom community outside the metropolitan area of Little Rock (Pulaski County), lays claim to bei...

The Carlisle Independent, based in Carlisle (Lonoke County), began in 1905 under Thomas P. Young. Young worked...

The Carver Gymnasium, located at 400 Ferguson Street in Lonoke (Lonoke County), is the last remaining structur...

On September 12, 1917, a twenty-five-year-old African-American man named Sam Cates was lynched near England (L...

Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton was an early pioneer in professional basketball, playing in the National Ba...

The story of Coy is the same as that of many rural Arkansas communities that have almost disappeared since the...

Daddy and Them is a comedy-drama written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton that stars Thornton and Laura Dern...

The Dairyman’s Bank Building located in Carlisle (Lonoke County) was constructed around 1901. Established as...

In early January 1894, Alford “Alf” Davis, an African American man, was hanged by a mob in Lonoke County f...

On November 6, 1873, George Alexander “Dock” Eagle, his son Will, and his nephew Robert J. (R. J.) Eagle w...

On April 25, 1898, three men were shot to death in Lonoke (Lonoke County). These killings—and the conflicts ...

Established next to the town of Lonoke in 1917, during World War I, Eberts Field ranked second among aviation ...