During a period of about three months in the winter of 1947 and 1948, Arkansas was the site of the crash of tw...

Located in the Buffalo River valley in the Boston Mountains of northern Arkansas, the unincorporated community...

John Cecil was the first elected sheriff of Newton County. He joined the Confederate army at the beginning of ...

A young couple who believed they would be resurrected died in a murder-suicide on the Little Buffalo River Bri...

Diamond Cave, one of Arkansas’s many noteworthy caves, is located on Henson Creek, three miles from Jasper (...

Dogpatch USA operated from 1968 to 1993 as an amusement park based on characters and locations in Al Capp’s ...

Fallsville is an unincorporated community in Boston Township in the southwestern corner of Newton County. The ...

Jasper was established as a village along the Little Buffalo River by 1840. Today, it is the hub for outdoor e...

Centered on the Newton County Courthouse, the Jasper Commercial Historic District in Jasper (Newton County) in...

A small skirmish between Arkansas Federals and Confederate-leaning guerrillas in the rugged Ozark Mountains, t...

The Little Buffalo River Bridge is a concrete T-beam bridge located on Arkansas Highway 327 at its crossing of...

María Cristina DeColores Moroles (also known by the ceremonial names Sun Hawk and Águila) is best known for ...

Located in the Boston Mountains, Newton County can be described as mountainous, rural, and isolated. The land,...

The Newton County Courthouse is located at 100 Court Street in downtown Jasper (Newton County). The Arkansas H...

The Newton County Draft War was the last armed incident of the documented Arkansas draft wars, as well as one ...

The Newton County Historical Society was founded in December 1953 by a group that included Walter Lackey, Man...

The Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District is located four miles north of Jasper (Newton County) and was listed...

The Ponca Elk Education Center was established in 2002 to serve wildlife enthusiasts coming to Newton County t...

John Henry Pruitt of Newton County is one of only nineteen soldiers in U.S. military history to be twice award...

The Rattlesnake Basket Rockshelter (3NW79) is located in southeastern Newton County near the top of the Boston...

These separate Civil War skirmishes over two days in northern Arkansas were part of a Federal effort to keep C...

In 1833, the Washington National Monument Society was founded to create a memorial to the United States’ fir...

Western Grove is located on U.S. Highway 65 in the northeastern corner of Newton County. Travelers along the h...

Shortly after mustering into service, on orders of Brigadier General J. B. Sanborn, the Second Arkansas Cavalr...