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...
Chesser and Holly Marriage Case of 1888
On May 10, 1888, James Chesser purchased a marriage license for himself and Georgeanna Holly from the Sebastia...
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 ...
Cuban Refugee Crisis
Arkansas played a part in the international drama of 1980, when 125,000 Cubans left their homeland for a new l...
William Orlando Darby (1911–1945)
Brigadier General William Orlando Darby, born in western Arkansas, is best known for his organization of the F...
Action at Devil's Backbone
aka: Action at Backbone Mountain
aka: Action at Jenny Lind
The Union victory at Devil’s Backbone secured the North’s captu...
Sonora Louise Smart Dodd (1882–1978)
Sonora Louise Smart Dodd is known as the “Mother of Father’s Day.” She began trying to make Father’s D...
Dumas (Lynching of)
On August 5, 1874, an African-American man, identified only as Dumas in newspaper reports, was killed in Gree...
Hollie “Hot Stuff” Dunaway (1984–)
Hollie “Hot Stuff” Dunaway is a model, wrestler, and former professional boxer. From 2003 to 2013, fightin...
Benjamin Taylor DuVal (1823–1905)
Benjamin Taylor (Ben) DuVal was a Fort Smith (Sebastian County) lawyer and a Democratic politician who served ...
Elias Rector DuVal (1836–1885)
In the late nineteenth century, physician Elias Rector DuVal (sometimes rendered Duval) was a leader in the dr...
Edward Walter Eberle (1864–1929)
Edward Walter Eberle was a U.S. Navy officer who grew up in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) before beginning a f...
Ed Walker's Drive-in and Restaurant
Ed Walker’s Drive-in and Restaurant at 1500 Towson Avenue in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) is a thriving ico...
John Edwards (1815–1894)
John Edwards was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Initially declared the victor in th...
Eleventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops (US)
The Eleventh Regiment, United States Colored Troops was organized in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) on Decembe...
Elmwood Poor Farm Cemetery
The Elmwood Poor Farm Cemetery, located in Fort Smith (Sebastian County) at the intersection of South 24th Str...
Isaac Filmore (Execution of)
On April 3, 1874, a sixteen-year-old Choctaw boy named Isaac Filmore was hanged in Fort Smith (Sebastian Count...
First Arkansas Light Artillery (CS)
The First Arkansas Light Artillery was a militia battery mustered on September 27, 1860, at Fort Smith (Sebast...
William Meade Fishback (1831–1903)
William Meade Fishback was a prominent Unionist during the Civil War who became the seventeenth governor of Ar...
Samuel W. Fooy (Execution of)
On September 3, 1875, a Native American man named Samuel W. Fooy was among the first six men to be executed in...
Fort Chaffee
aka: Camp Chaffee
Fort Chaffee, just outside of Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Bar...
Fort Smith (Sebastian County)
Fort Smith shares its status with Greenwood as the county seat of Sebastian County. Early in the history of Ar...
Fort Smith Confederate Monument
The Fort Smith Confederate Monument is a sculpture erected in 1903 at the Sebastian County Courthouse in Fort...
Fort Smith Conference (1865)
As a diplomatic assembly of Native American delegates and U.S. government officials, the Fort Smith Conference...
Fort Smith Council
The gathering of Native Americans, Arkansas territorial officials, and U.S. government representatives held in...
Fort Smith Expedition (November 5–16, 1864)
In late 1864, the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department launched a final offensive into Missouri in an atte...
Fort Smith Expedition (November 5–23, 1864)
After the Camden Expedition in the spring of 1864, Confederate fortunes in Arkansas began to falter, and Confe...
Fort Smith Historical Society
The express purpose of the Fort Smith Historical Society (FSHS) is to locate, identify, collect, and preserve ...
Fort Smith Museum of History
Since 1910, the Fort Smith Museum of History has acquired, preserved, exhibited, and interpreted objects of hi...
Fort Smith National Cemetery
The Fort Smith National Cemetery is the oldest original cemetery of the state’s three national cemeteries. T...
Fort Smith Regional Airport
The Fort Smith Regional Airport is a mixed-use airport located three miles southeast of Fort Smith (Sebastian ...
Fort Smith Regional Art Museum
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum (RAM) is an art museum with exhibits, art classes, and a studio art school ...
Desegregation of Fort Smith Schools
At the time the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decis...
Fort Smith Sedition Trial of 1988
For seven weeks beginning on February 16, 1988, Fort Smith (Sebastian County) was the site of a major trial in...