Little remains of the town of Blackton, but the area is significant as an important farming region and as the ...

The town of Brinkley in Monroe County sits just south of Interstate 40, halfway between Little Rock (Pulaski...

On May 5, 1883, J. C. McKetham and brothers B. F. Kelley and Robert J. Kelley established the Brinkley Argus n...

Floyd B. Brown founded the Fargo Agricultural School in Monroe County in 1919 to provide the equivalent of ele...

On July 6, 1862, dismounted members of Company “I” of the Third Iowa Cavalry turned back a Confederate att...

The Cache River arises near the Arkansas-Missouri border at the confluence of a few agricultural ditches and f...

The 62,000-acre Cache River National Wildlife Refuge is the most important wintering area for ducks and the la...

Early on the morning of November 8, 1903, a mob lynched a white man named Zallie C. Cadle in Brinkley (Monroe ...

The Central Delta Depot Museum in Brinkley (Monroe County) is an initiative of the Central Delta Historical So...

Clarendon is located on the White River near the mouth of the Cache River. It became an early settlement as a ...

The Clarendon Expedition of August 4–17, 1862, resulted in the Union’s capture of the city of Clarendon (M...

In the early fall of 1864, a combined Union cavalry and infantry force embarked upon a mission into eastern Ar...

On August 9, 1898, Manse (or Manze) Castle, Will Sanders (Saunders), Sanders’s mother Lorilla (Rilla) Weaver...

Early on the morning of June 24, 1864, a Confederate cavalry brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jo...

The Consolidated White River Academy arose in the late 1800s when several African-American church groups in th...

The Ellis and Charlotte Williamson House is located on the south side of the westernmost end of West Cloverdal...

Fargo is a town on U.S. Highway 49 in northern Monroe County, north of Interstate 40. Fargo came into existenc...

Before the state of Arkansas made public funds available for segregated schools for black children, Floyd Brow...

On July 30, 1896, an African American man named Godfrey Gould was lynched by a mob of more than 100 people in ...

The Great Southern Hotel, also known as the Rusher Hotel or Hotel Rusher, is a historic hotel building at 127 ...

On June 25, 1903, an African American man named Jack Harris was lynched in Clarendon (Monroe County) for alleg...

  Shortly after completion of a successful expedition along the White and Little Red rivers, which resu...

Located in Clarendon (Monroe County), the Highway 79 Bridge spanned the White River for eighty-eight years unt...

Richard Nathaniel Hogan was one of the most influential preachers and essayists among black Churches of Christ...

Holly Grove is a well-preserved Delta community. Its business district is included on the National Register of...

Indian Bay is an unincorporated community in southern Monroe County. Located on a lake of the same name, India...

On May 22, 1885, an African American man named Goodwin Jackson was executed in Clarendon (Monroe County) for t...

On August 19, 1876, a white man named Johnson was lynched in Clarendon (Monroe County) for allegedly having mu...

Louis Thomas Jordan—vocalist, bandleader, and saxophonist—ruled the charts, stage, screen, and airwaves of...

Thomas J. Lacy was a leader of the Arkansas legal community in the early days of statehood. One of the origina...