Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...

Originally known as Gourdneck (sometimes written as Gourd Neck, Goardneck, or Gourd Nick), the Acorn community...

On February 20, 1901, Peter Berryman (regularly referred to as “Nigger Pete” in newspaper articles) was ly...

The Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the Ouachita National Forest in western Arkansas and eastern ...

The Caddo River of west-central Arkansas is known widely as the Natural State’s premier family float str...

Osro Cobb was a lawyer who, as state chairman of the Republican Party, helped establish a real two-party polit...

Arkansas’s most famous attempt at radical labor education was the accidental by-product of natural beauty, c...

The Cossatot River rises in the Ouachita Mountains southeast of Mena (Polk County) and flows southward through...

The Cossatot River State Park–Natural Area conserves a twelve-and-one-half-mile stretch of the Cossatot Rive...

Cove is a town on U.S. Highway 71 in western Polk County. It is home to Van-Cove High School, part of the Coss...

Archie Cude, a farmer who was born and reared around Houston, Texas, moved his young family in 1948 to the rem...

Robert Lrod Dorough was a composer, lyricist, and musician best known for his jazz compositions and 1970s Sch...

Emma Hays Dusenbury was an outstanding traditional singer; her work is represented by some 116 songs in the na...

The Ebenezer Monument is located at the corner of 9th and Church streets in Mena (Polk County). It was constru...

Clay Fulks was a notable figure in Arkansas’s limited history of radical leftism. He was a repeat candidate ...

Grannis is located on U.S. Highway 71 in southern Polk County. Like many of the cities of southwestern Arkansa...

On September 29, 1975, in the tiny town of Grannis (Polk County), a group of approximately twenty-five residen...

Hatfield is a town on U.S. Highway 71 in Polk County. Although it originated earlier than the Civil War, its s...

Lee Elhardt Hays was a singer best known as the big man who sang bass with the folk music group the Weavers. ...

Elijah Whitt “Lige” Horner served in both World War I and World War II before retiring as a lieutenant col...

A group of men lynched a white man named Lebow (also spelled as Lebo), described as a “villain, murderer and...

Paul Tyrone Lewis was an American artist who is remembered for the realism of his landscape paintings. In a ca...

Little Africa was an all-black community that lay near Board Camp Creek in Polk County east of the county seat...

Herbert A. Littleton was an Arkansas native who received the Medal of Honor for valor while serving as a U.S. ...

Lone Valley, once called Rock Spring, is a remote and sparsely populated area in Polk County approximately fou...

Mary Victor (M. V.) Mayfield came to Mena (Polk County) in 1918 and practiced medicine with the identity of a ...

Mena was founded in the late nineteenth century as a railroad town in western Arkansas. Situated amid the Ouac...

The Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport near the city of Mena (Polk County) in the Ouachita Mountains of west...