Pope County

Arkansas Nuclear One
The Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) power plant, located a few miles west of Russellville (Pope County), is the sta...
Arkansas River Visitor Center
The Arkansas River Visitor Center, dedicated on August 20, 1985, was designed to acquaint visitors with the Ar...
Arkansas Tech University
Arkansas Tech University is a public, coeducational, regional university located in Russellville (Pope County)...
Arkansas Tech University Museum
aka: Tech Museum
The Arkansas Tech University Museum, chartered as the Museum of Pre...
Atkins (Pope County)
Atkins has long been identified as the pickle capital of Arkansas, although the pickle industry is only a part...
Atkins Pickle Company
Atkins Pickle Company was the major industry in the town of Atkins (Pope County) for more than fifty years, an...
Atkins Race War of 1897
What most newspapers described as the “Atkins Race War” occurred in Lee Township of Pope County in late Ma...
Bob Bailey (1889–1957)
aka: Robert Ballard Bailey
Robert Ballard (Bob) Bailey was a prominent early to mid-twentieth-...
Lee Barnes (Execution of)
Lee Barnes was hanged at Dover (Pope County) on May 21, 1886, for the murder and robbery of a Conway County ga...
William Brown (Execution of)
William Brown was executed on October 19, 1838, in Pope County for murdering his pregnant wife. Brown and his ...
William Harvey (Harve) Bruce (1847–1907)
Harve Bruce was a moonshiner who resided on Oak Mountain in Van Buren County. Pursued by local and federal a...
Bullfrog Valley Gang
The Bullfrog Valley Gang was a notorious counterfeiting ring that operated in the wilderness of Pope County du...
Natalie Suzanne Canerday (1962–)
Natalie Canerday is an Arkansas actress known for such films like October Sky and Sling Blade. The bulk of Can...
Caraway Hall (Arkansas Tech University)
Caraway Hall, located at 1403 North Arkansas Avenue on the Arkansas Tech University campus in Russellville (Po...
Confederate Mothers Memorial Park
Confederate Mothers Memorial Park is a commemorative park located in Russellville (Pope County). The park cont...
Thomas Bryant (Tom) Cotton (1977–)
Tom Cotton became the junior senator from Arkansas in 2015. A Republican elected with only Libertarian Party o...
Dover (Pope County)
Dover was once the county seat of Pope County and the major site of a series of violent post-Reconstruction ev...
Dwight Mission
Dwight Mission near Russellville (Pope County) was the first formal Protestant effort directed at the educatio...
Cal Emory (Lynching of)
Cal Emory was lynched in Dover (Pope County) on June 13, 1881, after his sentence of death was commuted to twe...
Fair View School
The Fair View School at 2367 Mill Creek Road in Russellville (Pope County) is a single-story, T-shaped buildin...
Famous (Pope County)
aka: Mooretown (Pope County)
The Arkansas landscape is dotted with small towns that were at one ...
Feltner’s Whatta-Burger
Feltner’s Whatta-Burger at 1410 North Arkansas Avenue in Russellville (Pope County) is a venerable restauran...
Ralph Perry Forbes (1940–2018)
Ralph Forbes was an Arkansas political operator, minister, and former leader in the Ku Klux Klan and the Ameri...
Monroe Franklin (Lynching of)
On August 19, 1912, an African-American man named Monroe Franklin was hanged in Russellville (Pope County) for...
Fried Dill Pickles
In 1960, Bernell “Fatman” Austin (born on February 26, 1921) leased a parcel of land east of Atkins (Pope ...
Galla Creek Wildlife Management Area
Galla Creek Wildlife Management Area is situated near the Arkansas River and is currently managed by the Arkan...
Galley Rock
aka: Galla Rock (Pope County)
Galley Rock in Pope County is a two-mile shale bluff that rises alm...
Girls Domestic Science and Arts Building (Arkansas Tech University)
aka: Old Art Building (Arkansas Tech University)
aka: Browning Hall (Arkansas Tech University)
The Girls’ Domestic Science and Arts Building, located at 1505 No...
James Richard (J. R.) Grant (1880–1951)
James Richard (J. R.) Grant led what is now Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) through difficult years, includi...
Great American Conference
The Great American Conference (GAC), created in 2010, is an athletic conference comprising institutions locate...
B. C. Hall (1936–2004)
Baxter Clarence (B. C.) Hall Jr. was an author and teacher whose novels and books on Southern myth and culture...
Josephine (Jo) Linker Hart (1943–)
Josephine Linker (Jo) Hart, whose Cherokee parents were driven from their farm in Pope County when she was a c...