Union County

Edwin Boyd Alderson Jr. (1940–2017)
Edwin Alderson Jr. became a prominent lawyer, jurist, and businessman in Arkansas in the late twentieth centur...
Wyatt Ames (Lynching of)
On October 15 or 16, 1883, an African-American man named Wyatt Ames was shot to death near Lexington (some rep...
Pernella Anderson (1903–1980)
Pernella Mae Center Anderson of El Dorado (Union County) was one of Arkansas’s two African-American intervie...
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. (1938–2025)
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. was a long-time Arkansas public servant and an alumnus of the University of Arkansa...
Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources
The Arkansas Museum of Natural Resources houses exhibits that tell the story of oil and bromine production in...
Arkansas Traveller [Ku Klux Klan Newspaper]
The Arkansas Traveller was a weekly Ku Klux Klan (KKK) newspaper published in El Dorado (Union County) and Lit...
Jerry Atkins (Lynching of)
Jerry Atkins, a black man, was murdered in Union County on November 21, 1865, for having allegedly murdered tw...
O. C. Bailey (1894–1967)
aka: Olin Cavanaugh Bailey
Olin Cavanaugh Bailey of El Dorado (Union County) was a leader in t...
Thomas Harry Barton (1881–1960)
Colonel Thomas H. Barton, a pioneer El Dorado (Union County) oilman and philanthropist, launched his small Lio...
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914?–1999)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was a mentor to the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who integrated Cent...
Rush Bennett (Execution of)
Rush Bennett was hanged in El Dorado (Union County) on February 4, 1881, for the murder of a former employer t...
ReShonda Tate Billingsley (1969–)
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a journalist, public speaker, publisher, editor, ghostwriter, and producer; howev...
Black Swan Historical Romance Series
The Black Swan series is a trilogy of historical romance novels written by author Carolyn Brown, perhaps best ...
J. B. Bobo (1910–1996)
With such a colorful name, it is small wonder that magician J. B. Bobo is known throughout the world. Adults a...
Ed Brock (Lynching of)
On August 10, 1923, a young African-American teamster named Ed Brock was lynched at Murphyville in Union Count...
Lou Brock (1939–2020)
aka: Louis Clark Brock
Louis Clark (Lou) Brock, a member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fa...
Bromine
Bromine (chemical symbol Br) is a highly corrosive, reddish-brown, volatile element found in liquid form. Brom...
Samuel Thompson Busey (1867–1962)
Samuel Thompson Busey was a 1920s oil speculator and promoter of the Arkansas oil industry. While originally t...
Calion (Union County)
Calion is a second-class city in the northern part of Union County, on Highway 167 and on the south bank of th...
John L. Canley (1937–2022)
John L. Canley was a retired U.S. Marine sergeant belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor for heroic service in t...
Champagnolle (Union County)
Champagnolle, located on a bluff on the west bank of the Ouachita River, was an important early 1800s shipping...
Floyd Cramer (1933–1997)
Pianist Floyd Cramer was one of the creators of what became known as the “Nashville sound,” a styl...
Thase Christine Ferguson Daniel (1907–1990)
Thase Christine Ferguson Daniel of El Dorado (Union County) was an internationally known nature and wildlife p...
Dual State Monument
aka: Donaghey Monument
aka: Donaghey State Park
The Dual State Monument, also known as the Donaghey Monument, was b...
Ernest Clifton (Ernie) Dumas (1937–)
Ernie Dumas was the dean of the Arkansas political press corps for most of the second half of the twentieth c...
Ronnie Gene Dunn (1953–)
With a slew of chart-topping singles to his credit as half of the duo Brooks & Dunn, Ronnie Gene Dunn esta...
El Dorado (Union County)
El Dorado is the county seat of Union County in south central Arkansas and a center for oil production and ref...
El Dorado Confederate Monument
The El Dorado Confederate Monument is a sculpture erected in 1910 by the Henry G. Bunn Chapter of the United D...
El Dorado High School Gym
The El Dorado High School Gym, located at 300 South West Avenue on South Arkansas College’s West Campus at E...
El Dorado Junior College
El Dorado Junior College was a public junior college open from 1928 to 1942 in El Dorado (Union County). Opera...
El Dorado Promise
The El Dorado Promise is a scholarship program established in January 2007 by Murphy Oil Company. The initiati...
El Dorado Race Riot of 1910
The El Dorado Race Riot that began on February 26, 1910, was reportedly sparked by a gun battle between an uni...