The Arkansas Rice Festival, held during the second weekend of October in Weiner (Poinsett County), was founded...

Mary Ann Ritter Arnold became president of E. Ritter & Company, one of the most successful family-owned bu...

Esther Bindursky, editor of the weekly Lepanto News Record for thirty-four years, was an award-winning journal...

Bolivar is an example of one of the many small Arkansas towns that briefly rose to local prominence. Located o...

David Adrian Cox was an obscure Poinsett County farmer who, at the age of forty-eight, ran a quixotic campaign...

Gene Darrell “Bud” Deckelman was a country and rockabilly musician who had brief success in Memphis, Tenne...

Joseph Dewitt “Sonny” Deckelman was a musician, songwriter, and record label owner active in the Memphis, ...

Born in Tennessee and raised in the Arkansas Delta, Mignon Dunn is a mezzo-soprano who performed more than 650...

E. Ritter & Company is one of the most successful and long-lasting family-owned businesses in the state. H...

Fisher is located on U.S. Highway 49 in the southwest corner of Poinsett County. Like many other Arkansas citi...

A native of Mississippi, William Atha Gay spent much of his youth in Lepanto (Poinsett County) and attended wh...

Situated upon Crowley’s Ridge, Harrisburg (Poinsett County) became the seat of Poinsett County in September ...

James Richard Hendrix was a World War II veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions during t...

Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1 (1906) is a U.S. Supreme Court case resulting in the overturning of the co...

Buddy Jewell is a country musician best known for having won the top prize in the first season of the reality ...

The Judd Hill Plantation in Poinsett County has epitomized the evolution of agriculture in that portion of the...

On April 29, 1936, a nineteen-year-old African-American man named Willie Kees was shot near Lepanto (Poinset...

Arkansas’s twentieth state park, Lake Poinsett, is a fishing haven located off Arkansas Highway 163 in Harri...

A product of the timber industry and the railroads, the city of Lepanto grew through the twentieth century fro...

The Lepanto Terrapin Derby is a festival that has been held in Lepanto (Poinsett County) every year since 1930...

Marked Tree is a small town in Poinsett County in the northeastern part of Arkansas. It is possibly the only t...

In July 1894, newspapers reported on a race riot in Marked Tree (Poinsett County). The incident precedes other...

Constructed in 1939 by the Memphis District Corps of Engineers for Drainage District Number Seven of Poinsett ...

When the Maxie Theatre opened in August 1947 in Trumann (Poinsett County), it was considered to be one of the ...

C. M. “Charley” Miller was hanged at Harrisburg (Poinsett County) on August 12, 1910, for the robbery, mur...

Harry Leland Mitchell was a lifelong union activist and co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (ST...

Perry Wayne Ouzts, a professional jockey from Lepanto (Poinsett County), is one of twenty-one professional rid...

Poinsett County is located in Arkansas’s northeast corner. The St. Francis River travels north to south in t...

The Poinsett County Courthouse—built in 1918—is located on Courthouse Square, a section of Harrisburg (Poi...

Completed in 1926, the Rivervale Inverted Siphons were a prerequisite to permanent settlement in eastern Poins...

The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza (Poinsett County), which opened on October 6, 2006, focuses on ...