John Adkins was hanged at Perryville (Perry County) on May 27, 1910, for the ambush murder of his brother-in-l...

Adona is a city located on Highway 10 in northern Perry County. It began as a railroad town, prospered due to...

The first Arkansas Goat Festival was held in Perryville (Perry County) on the first weekend in October in 2016...

J. M. Armstrong, convicted in a doctor’s killing that he claimed was in self-defense, was hanged at Perryvil...

Perry County native Harold George Bennett was a Green Beret serving in Vietnam in 1964 when he was captured in...

Bigelow is located in the eastern part of Perry County, near the confluence of the Fourche La Fave and Arkansa...

Camp Ouachita was the hearthstone for outdoor- and social-skills development and a path through adolescence fo...

Casa may be one of the oldest settlements in Perry County, although it remained a small community until the ar...

The December 1, 1864, Skirmish at Cypress Creek was one of many military events of the Civil War to occur with...

  This action was the first engagement between Federal and Confederate forces during Brigadier General Jo...

The town of Fourche (the name is pronounced to rhyme with “bush”) is located in northeastern Perry County ...

The Fourche La Fave River rises in the Ouachita Mountains near Boles (Scott County) and flows east-northeast f...

The town of Houston, in northern Perry County, is one of several communities in Arkansas that relocated to be ...

Carl Max Milam was a printing plant superintendent, a university professor and department chairman, the direct...

Nimrod is a small community located near the Fourche La Fave River in western Perry County. Never a large comm...

Nimrod Dam in western Perry County is the oldest project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the state of A...

Perry is a town in Perry County that began as a railroad stop and survived as a lumber town. State Highways 9...

  Perry County is in the Ouachita Mountains with the Arkansas River Valley flanking its eastern border an...

The Perry County Courthouse was built in 1888 as a two-story brick building with very little decoration. This...

The Perry County Historical and Genealogical Society was organized in December 1997 at the Max Milam Library ...

The Perry County War is the common name given to a brief period of violence that erupted in Perryville (Perry ...

The December 3, 1864, Skirmish at Perry County was one of many military events of the Civil War to occur withi...

The Perry Rock Island Railroad Depot in Perry (Perry County) is a wood-frame structure that was built to suppo...

Perryville sits in the Fourche River valley at the base of the Ouachita National Forest. The town is encircled...

Millions of people have heard Louie Shelton’s smooth guitar-playing on hit records and albums without knowin...

During the 1920s and 1930s, Howard Jacob Simon was a nationally celebrated painter in oils and watercolors and...

Charles Stewart, a white man, was lynched in Perryville (Perry County) on May 17, 1892, after killing Deputy S...

Representative Paul Van Dalsem—with his cigars, his aggressive style, and his fiscal conservatism—came to ...