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stone two story building with green trim "Arkansas House" featuring the shape of Arkansas rendered in stone

Arkansas House Inn

Rooms built into side of a cave with balcony and rock walls

Beckham Creek Cave

Swinging bridge over dry creekbed

Two story wood frame building with gabled roof square steeple front door step trees mountains

Boxley Community Building

Bull Elk with large antlers on grass field

seven people standing before multistory wooden building

Boxley Grist Mill

Steel bridge spanning river with sand bar trees in foreground and mountain ridge behind

Buffalo River Bridge

Group of white men and women buying and serving food in tents

Buffalo River Elk Festival

Looking up at fire tower in wooded area with single-story building under it

Buffalo Tower Lookout

Steel framed lookout tower with ladders leading to the top

Compton Lookout

Cave interior with stalagmites signed "Diamond Cave"

Diamond Cave Postcard

Interior of cave with stalagmites and stalactites

Print ad for "Summer and Winter Health & Pleasure Resorts in Arkansas" with photos of tourists in caves, captions

Diamond Cave Brochure

three adult male elk graze in field with trees and hills in background

Elk crossing signs on highway with fall foliage and mountain in the background

Single-story log cabin in wooded area

Single-story log cabin with metal roof in wooded area

Flowers Cabin Entrance

Side view of log cabin in wooded area

Flowers Cabin Side View

Window in side of single-story log cabin in wooded area

Flowers Cabin Windows

Rock cellar building with no door on farm

Scale like shingles on cabin with small window

Line drawings of plans for grist mill

Grist Mill Plans

Natural waterfall and creek with trees

Hemmed-in Hollow

Man standing on rock outcrop above waterfall

Hemmed-in-Hollow

Multistory cabin with covered porch and rock foundations

Wood and metal ruins with trees in the background

Henderson Farm Barn

Side view of multistory cabin with covered porch

Henderson Farmhouse Side

Crowd of people gathered at a tree-lined river watching a baptism

Two white women at storefront with car

Jasper Street Scene

Buildings and cars on a street with trees and electrical wires

Jasper Commercial Historic District

storefront buildings and cars on a street

Jasper Commercial Historic District

storefront and other buildings on a street

Jasper Commercial Historic District

Wooden building with steeple and man in a suit

Jasper Methodist Church

Town buildings and houses in tree covered country side with barn and corn field in the foreground

Jasper Overlook

Group of men with digging tools outside the "L. G Young" store

L. G. Young Store

Side view of concrete bridge over river

Little Buffalo River Bridge

Underside of concrete bridge with stone columns over river

Little Buffalo River Bridge

Close-up of vines hanging from concrete bridge over river

Little Buffalo River Bridge

Concrete bridge with stone supporting columns over river

Little Buffalo River Bridge

Waterfall in forest with cliffs, stream, foliage

Stone brick monument with "Arkansas" engraved brick and plaque on its base in forested area

Marble Quarry Monument

Dove carving on gravestone

Nick Miller Carving Detail

Multistory white wooden building with people on the sidewalk and cars parked alongside

Interior of abandoned outhouse in forest

New Deal Outhouse

rectangular two-story stone building with small lawn bare trees sidewalk stop sign and street

Newton County Courthouse

"Eight of the Cecil Cove slacker gang give up to sheriff" newspaper clipping

Newton County Draft War Article

"Newton County" map with borders roads cities national forest

Newton County Map

Outhouse with sign in woods

Outhouse in Big Buffalo Valley Historic District

A-frame wooden barn with screen on window and door opening

Parker-Hickman Farm Barn

Wooden barn with metal A-frame roof on farm

Parker-Hickman Farm Barn

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