Sebastian County

Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
aka: Krantz v. City of Fort Smith
Albert Krantz v. City of Fort Smith was a 1998 decision by the Eigh...
Freda Hogan Ameringer (1892–1988)
Freda Hogan Ameringer was a journalist, Socialist Party official, and labor activist in Sebastian County; she...
Scout to Arkansas River
aka: Skirmish at Threkeld's Ferry
  While northwestern Arkansas was tentatively under Union cont...
Baptist Health-Fort Smith
Baptist Health-Fort Smith, located in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), was founded in 1887, making it Arkansas...
Barling (Sebastian County)
Barling (Sebastian County) is located between one of Arkansas’s major cities, Fort Smith (Sebastian County),...
E. M. Bartlett (1883–1941)
aka: Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr.
With the exception of his protégé, Albert E. Brumley, no other Ar...
Belle Grove Historic District
The Belle Grove Historic District in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) is located northwest of the city’s downto...
John Billy (Execution of)
On April 3, 1874, a Choctaw man named John Billy was executed at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) for the murder ...
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues is a 1988 movie made entirely in Arkansas. Shooting locations included Van Buren (Crawford County...
Hugh M. Bland (1898–1967)
Hugh M. Bland was born in northwestern Arkansas, but his father, a poor and restless farmer, took the family b...
James G. Blunt (1826–1881)
aka: James Gilpatrick Blunt
James Gilpatrick Blunt had several careers and titles during his li...
Bonanza (Sebastian County)
The city of Bonanza was a major center of the coal industry in Sebastian County during the late nineteenth and...
Bonanza Race War of 1904
The Bonanza Race War of 1904 was a race riot/labor war that occurred in the coal-mining city of Bonanza (Sebas...
William Bradford (1771–1826)
William Bradford was a major in the U.S. Army, a veteran of the War of 1812, an explorer, a Kentucky legislato...
Albert Edward Brumley (1905–1977)
Albert Edward Brumley Sr. was one of the most successful American gospel song composers of the twentieth centu...
Buckner College
Buckner College in Witcherville (Sebastian County), chartered in 1879, began operations in the fall of 1882 as...
Butterfield's Overland Mail Company
aka: Overland Mail Company
Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company carried the first success...
William Lewis Cabell (1827–1911)
A talented and respected Confederate brigadier general, William Lewis Cabell performed most of his Civil War s...
Ida Hayman Callery (1886–1917)
Ida Hayman Callery was a teacher, suffragist, feminist, and socialist organizer in Arkansas prior to World War...
John Carnall (1818–1892)
John Carnall was a Virginia native who moved to Fort Smith (Sebastian County) in 1840. An educator, legislator...
Central City (Sebastian County)
Located at the crossroads of Arkansas Highways 22 and 255 in Sebastian County, Central City is a suburb of nea...
John Childers (Execution of)
On August 15, 1873, a Cherokee man named John Childers was hanged at Fort Smith (Sebastian County) for the 187...
City of Fort Smith v. Wade
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), one of the most significant governmental reform laws ever enacted by th...
Clayton House
aka: W. H. H. Clayton Home
The authentically restored Clayton House, circa 1882, stands in the...
William Henry Harrison Clayton (1840–1920)
William H. H. Clayton moved to Arkansas in 1864 and like his brothers, Powell Clayton and John Middleton Clayt...
Chad Colley (1944–2021)
aka: Ralph C. Colley Jr.
Chad Colley, a veteran of the Vietnam War, was a pilot, businessman...
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is a civil rights organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942 th...
Charles Maynard "Savvy" Cooke Jr. (1886–1970)
Fort Smith (Sebastian County) native Charles Maynard “Savvy” Cooke Jr. rose through the ranks of the U.S. ...
Coop Creek Bridge
The Coop Creek Bridge, located on Sebastian County Road 236 where it crosses Coop Creek near Mansfield (Sebast...
Coronado Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America
aka: United Mine Workers of America v. Coronado Coal Co.
Coronado Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers of America refers here to ...
William Ben Cravens (1872–1939)
William Ben Cravens was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He had two separate and dist...
William Fadjo Cravens (1899–1974)
William Fadjo Cravens was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented the Fourth ...