Edwin Ruthvin (Ed) Bethune Jr., a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington DC, served as a Republican member of the U...

  Located on the Current River near the Cherokee Bay in the southeastern Randolph County lowlands, the to...

The Black River Bridge is the name given to a historic bridge spanning the Black River in Randolph County. Bui...

Black River Technical College (BRTC) is a comprehensive, two-year accredited institution of higher learning se...

After attempting to clear communication lines in Missouri, Lieutenant Colonel George C. Thilenius of the Fifty...

On September 28, 1863, Captain William T. Leeper with elements of the Third Missouri State Militia Cavalry mov...

Arkansas has struggled for much of its history to fund the education of its children—particularly during the...

The Campbell Cemetery is located in Randolph County on the north side of the Spring River near Imboden (Lawren...

Tom Walter Campbell was a well-known Arkansas attorney and political figure in the first half of the twentieth...

Located five miles north of Pocahontas (Randolph County) in the Brockett community is the Cedar Grove School N...

Continuing the Union strategy of raiding northeastern Arkansas from Missouri to harass guerrillas or Confedera...

On May 7, 1872, a man named George Cole was shot down by a group of men in Randolph County for having allegedl...

Linda F. Collins was a state legislator in the early part of the twenty-first century. First elected as a Demo...

The town of Columbia, cited by many as the second-oldest settlement in northeast Arkansas, was located on the ...

The Current River crosses into Arkansas from Missouri at the border between Randolph and Clay counties and flo...

Davidsonville, founded in 1815, was perhaps the most important frontier settlement in northeast Arkansas. Thou...

Davidsonville Historic State Park is a 163-acre park located on the Black River in southern Randolph County. T...

Thomas Stevenson Drew was a peddler, schoolteacher, farmer, railroad speculator, and governor of Arkansas. He ...

The Eleven Point River rises in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri near the town of Willow Springs and flows sout...

Jeannette Howard Foster was a scholar and librarian who self-published Sex Variant Women in Literature in 1956...

The Fourche River arises in Ripley County, Missouri, from the confluence of several streams and flows through ...

Joel Carrington Hudson was a career diplomat at the U.S. Department of State who served in various posts aroun...

The Marr’s Creek Bridge is a reinforced concrete bridge with an open spandrel arch. It was built to carry U....

Maynard is in northern Randolph County, located at the intersection of State Highways 328 and 115. The town is...

Located on State Highway 328 on the outskirts of the small town of Maynard (Randolph County), the Maynard Pion...

  The town of O’Kean (Randolph County) first developed in the Black River bottoms, the area to the sout...

Jackson was a town once located in Lawrence County, approximately two miles northeast of the current town of I...

The Old Randolph County Courthouse sits in the middle of historic downtown Pocahontas (Randolph County). The s...

Early residents of Randolph County settled in the Ozark Plateau area of the county. While many of these commun...