Perry County

Adona (Perry County)
Adona is a city located on Highway 10 in northern Perry County. It began as a railroad town, prospered due to...
Arkansas Goat Festival
The first Arkansas Goat Festival was held in Perryville (Perry County) on the first weekend in October in 2016...
J. M. Armstrong (Execution of)
J. M. Armstrong, convicted in a doctor’s killing that he claimed was in self-defense, was hanged at Perryvil...
Harold George Bennett (1940–1965)
Perry County native Harold George Bennett was a Green Beret serving in Vietnam in 1964 when he was captured in...
Bigelow (Perry County)
Bigelow is located in the eastern part of Perry County, near the confluence of the Fourche La Fave and Arkansa...
Camp Ouachita National Historic District
Camp Ouachita was the hearthstone for outdoor- and social-skills development and a path through adolescence fo...
Shawn Camp (1966–)
aka: Darrel DeShawn Camp
Shawn Camp is a singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer b...
Casa (Perry County)
Casa may be one of the oldest settlements in Perry County, although it remained a small community until the ar...
Skirmish at Cypress Creek (December 1, 1864)
The December 1, 1864, Skirmish at Cypress Creek was one of many military events of the Civil War to occur with...
Skirmish at Cypress Creek (May 13, 1864)
  This action was the first engagement between Federal and Confederate forces during Brigadier General Jo...
Fourche (Perry County)
The town of Fourche (the name is pronounced to rhyme with “bush”) is located in northeastern Perry County ...
Fourche La Fave River
The Fourche La Fave River rises in the Ouachita Mountains near Boles (Scott County) and flows east-northeast f...
Houston (Perry County)
The town of Houston, in northern Perry County, is one of several communities in Arkansas that relocated to be ...
Carl Max Milam (1930–1987)
Carl Max Milam was a printing plant superintendent, a university professor and department chairman, the direct...
Nimrod (Perry County)
Nimrod is a small community located near the Fourche La Fave River in western Perry County. Never a large comm...
Nimrod Dam and Lake
Nimrod Dam in western Perry County is the oldest project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the state of A...
Perry (Perry County)
Perry is a town in Perry County that began as a railroad stop and survived as a lumber town. State Highways 9...
Perry County
  Perry County is in the Ouachita Mountains with the Arkansas River Valley flanking its eastern border an...
Perry County Courthouse
The Perry County Courthouse was built in 1888 as a two-story brick building with very little decoration. This...
Perry County Historical and Genealogical Society
The Perry County Historical and Genealogical Society was organized in December 1997 at the Max Milam Library ...
Perry County War of 1881
The Perry County War is the common name given to a brief period of violence that erupted in Perryville (Perry ...
Skirmish at Perry County
The December 3, 1864, Skirmish at Perry County was one of many military events of the Civil War to occur withi...
Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot
The Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot in Perry (Perry County) is a wood-frame structure that was built to suppo...
Perryville (Perry County)
Perryville sits in the Fourche River valley at the base of the Ouachita National Forest. The town is encircled...
Perryville American Legion Building
aka: Doyle-Leach Post American Legion Hut
The Perryville American Legion Building at 408 West Main Street in ...
Louie Shelton (1941–)
Millions of people have heard Louie Shelton’s smooth guitar-playing on hit records and albums without knowin...
Howard Jacob Simon (1902–1979)
During the 1920s and 1930s, Howard Jacob Simon was a nationally celebrated painter in oils and watercolors and...
St. Boniface Colony
aka: New Dixie (Perry County)
The St. Boniface Colony was the informal name for a successful Germ...
Charles Stewart (Lynching of)
Charles Stewart, a white man, was lynched in Perryville (Perry County) on May 17, 1892, after killing Deputy S...
Paul Van Dalsem (1907–1983)
Representative Paul Van Dalsem—with his cigars, his aggressive style, and his fiscal conservatism—came to ...
Wallace Bridge
aka: Nimrod Bridge
Constructed in 1908, the Wallace Bridge was nominated to the Nation...
Hubert Ethridge (H. E.) Williams (1913–1998)
Hubert Etheridge Williams was a twentieth-century religious, educational, and civic leader. He founded what is...