The Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) power plant, located a few miles west of Russellville (Pope County), is the sta...

The Arkansas River Visitor Center, dedicated on August 20, 1985, was designed to acquaint visitors with the Ar...

Arkansas Tech University is a public, coeducational, regional university located in Russellville (Pope County)...

Atkins has long been identified as the pickle capital of Arkansas, although the pickle industry is only a part...

Atkins Pickle Company was the major industry in the town of Atkins (Pope County) for more than fifty years, an...

What most newspapers described as the “Atkins Race War” occurred in Lee Township of Pope County in late Ma...

Lee Barnes was hanged at Dover (Pope County) on May 21, 1886, for the murder and robbery of a Conway County ga...

William Brown was executed on October 19, 1838, in Pope County for murdering his pregnant wife. Brown and his ...

Harve Bruce was a moonshiner who resided on Oak Mountain in Van Buren County. Pursued by local and federal a...

The Bullfrog Valley Gang was a notorious counterfeiting ring that operated in the wilderness of Pope County du...

Natalie Canerday is an Arkansas actress known for such films like October Sky and Sling Blade. The bulk of Can...

Caraway Hall, located at 1403 North Arkansas Avenue on the Arkansas Tech University campus in Russellville (Po...

Confederate Mothers Memorial Park is a commemorative park located in Russellville (Pope County). The park cont...

Tom Cotton became the junior senator from Arkansas in 2015. A Republican elected with only Libertarian Party o...

Dover was once the county seat of Pope County and the major site of a series of violent post-Reconstruction ev...

Dwight Mission near Russellville (Pope County) was the first formal Protestant effort directed at the educatio...

Cal Emory was lynched in Dover (Pope County) on June 13, 1881, after his sentence of death was commuted to twe...

The Fair View School at 2367 Mill Creek Road in Russellville (Pope County) is a single-story, T-shaped buildin...

Feltner’s Whatta-Burger at 1410 North Arkansas Avenue in Russellville (Pope County) is a venerable restauran...

Ralph Forbes was an Arkansas political operator, minister, and former leader in the Ku Klux Klan and the Ameri...

On August 19, 1912, an African-American man named Monroe Franklin was hanged in Russellville (Pope County) for...

In 1960, Bernell “Fatman” Austin (born on February 26, 1921) leased a parcel of land east of Atkins (Pope ...

Galla Creek Wildlife Management Area is situated near the Arkansas River and is currently managed by the Arkan...

James Richard (J. R.) Grant led what is now Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) through difficult years, includi...

The Great American Conference (GAC), created in 2010, is an athletic conference comprising institutions locate...

Baxter Clarence (B. C.) Hall Jr. was an author and teacher whose novels and books on Southern myth and culture...

Josephine Linker (Jo) Hart, whose Cherokee parents were driven from their farm in Pope County when she was a c...