Nevada County

Allen Tire Company and Gas Station
The Allen Tire Company and Gas Station was a Craftsman-style, purpose-built gas station located in Prescott (N...
Bluff City (Nevada County)
  Bluff City is a town on State Highway 24 in eastern Nevada County. It is near both Poison Springs Battl...
Bodcaw (Nevada County)
Bodcaw is a town in southern Nevada County on State Highway 53, about sixteen miles south of Prescott (Nevada ...
Boughton (Nevada County)
Boughton (Nevada County) is an unincorporated community in Boughton Township. Boughton is about four miles nor...
Cale (Nevada County)
Cale is a town on Highway 200 near the center of Nevada County. Created as a lumber community around the begin...
Camden to Washington Road, Rosston Segment
The Camden to Washington Road formerly connected the towns of Camden (Ouachita County) and Washington (Hempste...
Carolina Methodist Church
The Carolina Methodist Church is located near Rosston (Nevada County). Constructed in 1871, the building and a...
Charles Clyburn (Execution of)
Charles Clyburn was a white man hanged at Prescott (Nevada County) on August 5, 1898, after being convicted of...
D. L. McRae House
The D. L. McRae House is located in Prescott (Nevada County). Designed by architect Charles Thompson and commi...
Daily Picayune
The Prescott Daily Picayune was the oldest newspaper in Nevada County. For over 140 years, it chronicled the l...
De Ann Cemetery Historic Section
The De Ann Cemetery Historic Section is part of the Prescott City Cemetery located in Prescott (Nevada County)...
Samuel Dorris Dickinson (1912–2007)
Samuel Dorris Dickinson was an archaeologist, historian, journalist, linguist, and college instructor. He was ...
Emmet (Nevada and Hempstead Counties)
The city of Emmet was established in Nevada County in 1883 as a stop on the Cairo and Fulton Railroad. Located...
Emmet Lynching of 1891
On Saturday, December 12, 1891, an “unknown tramp,” apparently a white man, was hanged at Emmet (Nevada an...
Emmet United Methodist Church
The Emmet United Methodist Church is located at 209 Walnut Street in Emmet (Nevada and Hempstead counties). Th...
Ephesus Cemetery
The Ephesus Cemetery is located north of Emmet (Nevada and Hempstead counties). The cemetery is next to the or...
Falcon (Nevada County)
Falcon is an unincorporated community in southern Nevada County. One of the oldest communities in the area, it...
Felix Gilmore (Lynching of)
On May 26, 1916, Felix Gilmore (sometimes referred to as Felix/Phelix Gilman or Gillmore) was hanged by a mob ...
Martin White Greeson (1866–1949)
Martin White Greeson was an attorney and civic activist who spent most of his adult life advocating for the co...
Christopher Columbus Hamby (1851–1921)
Christopher Columbus Hamby of Prescott (Nevada County) was an attorney and political figure who served as acti...
Henry McKenzie House
The Henry McKenzie House is a transitional Queen Anne/Colonial Revival home located in Prescott (Nevada County...
Wade Hampton Kitchens (1878–1966)
Wade Hampton Kitchens was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Fourth ...
Laneburg (Nevada County)
Laneburg is an unincorporated community in Nevada County about eight miles southeast of Prescott (Nevada Count...
Donnie Lee Lindsey Sr. (1924–)
Donnie Lee Lindsey, longtime bishop within the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in Arkansas and noted businessm...
Helen Mae Eidson Buchanan Meahl (1912–2006)
Helen Meahl served in the Fifty-fifth Arkansas General Assembly, representing Nevada County, from 1945 t...
Action at Moscow
The Action at Moscow on April 13, 1864, signaled that Major General Frederick Steele’s Union forces would no...
Mount Moriah (Nevada County)
Mount Moriah (Nevada County) is an unincorporated community located in Caney Township along U.S. Highway 371. ...
John Calvin Munn (1906–1986)
Lieutenant General John Calvin “Toby” Munn was a commander in the Pacific Theater of World War II and a pi...
Nevada County
Located in the West Gulf Coastal Plain, Nevada County has a variety of sandy loam and silty clay loam soils, a...
Nevada County Courthouse
The Nevada County Courthouse is located in downtown Prescott (Nevada County). Constructed in 1964, it was adde...
Nevada County Depot and Museum
The Nevada County Depot and Museum, founded in 1976, is the only museum in Nevada County. Located in the 1912 ...
Nevada County Race War of 1897
On May 29, 1897, white employees of the Sayre Lumber Company near Prescott (Nevada County) set fire to a cabin...