Sharp County

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Ash Flat (Sharp County)
The northeastern Arkansas town of Ash Flat is a significant agricultural, medical, and retail district serving...
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Tommy Bolt (1916–2008)
Tommy Bolt was one of the top golfers on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) tour in the 1950s. The winner...
Conley F Byrd (1925–2014)
Conley F Byrd Sr. was a sharecroppers’ son from northeastern Arkansas who, after World War II, became a lawy...
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Calamine (Sharp County)
Calamine, home to some of the earliest settlers in what is now Sharp County, was the site of the state’s fir...
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Cave City (Sharp and Independence Counties)
Cave City is a small community that straddles the northern Independence and southern Sharp County border in no...
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Cherokee Village (Sharp and Fulton Counties)
A retirement community in northeastern Arkansas, Cherokee Village was founded in 1954. Started as a 2,400-acre...
Clash of the Ozarks
In the winter and early spring of 2014, the Discovery Channel broadcast a short-lived reality show whose story...
Stone house-like building with car in garage
Crystal River Tourist Camp Historic District
aka: Crystal River Tourist Court
aka: Crystal River Cave and Court
The Crystal River Tourist Camp Historic District is perhaps the mos...
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Evening Shade
Evening Shade was a television situation comedy series about a contemporary Arkansas town. It was shown on CBS...
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Evening Shade (Sharp County)
Evening Shade, located on U.S. Highway 167 in northern Arkansas, served as the seat of Sharp County for approx...
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Hardy (Sharp County)
Located in northern Arkansas on the Spring River, Hardy (Sharp County) was established in 1883 as a result of ...
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Hardy Cemetery Historic Section
The Hardy Cemetery Historic Section, which is located near the northern edge of Hardy (Sharp County), was adde...
"Sharp County" map with borders roads cities river
Highland (Sharp County)
When the school districts of Ash Flat (Sharp County) and Hardy (Sharp County) consolidated in 1962, they chose...
"Hemp for Kemp" newspaper clipping
Joseph Kemp (Execution of)
Joseph (Joe) Kemp was hanged at Evening Shade (Sharp County) on October 3, 1879, for fatally wounding a man te...
"Sensation at Hardy" newspaper clipping
Winfield Scott Morgan (1851–1928)
Winfield Scott Morgan (better known as W. Scott Morgan) lived in Arkansas for most of his life. As a writer, e...
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Skirmish at Morgan's Mill
aka: Battle of Martin's Creek
aka: Skirmish at Spring River (February 8, 1864)
After capturing Little Rock (Pulaski County) in September 1863 and ...
Multistory stone building with flagpole and flag
Old Kia Kima
Old Kia Kima is a restored former Boy Scout camp owned and operated by the Old Kia Kima Preservation Associati...
Natural spillway with water pouring over flat rocks
Poke Bayou (Sharp County)
Poke Bayou creek begins near Sidney (Sharp County) at Big Spring in Izard County, flows through Sandtown (Inde...
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"Preacher" Roe (1916–2008)
aka: Elwin Charles Roe
Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe played professional baseball with ...
Hardy Alton "Spider" Rowland (1907–1958)
Hardy Alton “Spider” Rowland was a flamboyant newspaperman whose political columns in the Arkansas Gazette...
Single-story building with parking lot and flagpoles behind brick sign reading "Sharp County Courthouse"
Sharp County
Sharp County, in northern Arkansas, was established in 1868. Though long known as a location for good hunting ...
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Ephraim Sharp (1815–1898)
Ephraim Sharp, for whom Sharp County was named, was an early pioneer in Arkansas. He also served in the state ...
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Sidney (Sharp County)
Sidney is a small farming community located in southwest Sharp County. While the area was settled in the 1840s...
Line drawing of white man with beard in suit with the label "Col. J.N. Smithee"
James Newton Smithee (1842–1902)
James Newton Smithee, the founder of the Arkansas Democrat, was a prominent figure in the history of Arkansas ...
Weston v. Arkansas
aka: Arkansas v. Weston
Joseph Harry Weston v. State of Arkansas dealt with two criminal ca...
Joseph Harry Weston (1911–1983)
Joseph Harry Weston was a journalist who retired to the mountains of Sharp County in 1962 and became famous fo...
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Wilburn Brothers
The Wilburn Brothers were among the most successful and influential sibling duos in the country music industry...
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Williford (Sharp County)
Williford is a small community located in the eastern part of Sharp County near the Spring River, one of Arkan...
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Williford Methodist Church
The Williford Methodist Church, located near the northwestern intersection of Ferguson and Hail streets in Wil...
"Sharp County" map with borders roads cities river
Wirth (Sharp County)
Wirth is a small, isolated community located on an approximately fifteen-mile-long north-south plateau rising ...