Van Buren County

Back Yonder, An Ozark Chronicle
Back Yonder, An Ozark Chronicle, published in 1932, is the autobiography of Charles Wayman Hogue (1870–1965)...
Opie Cates (1909–1987)
Opie Cates was a popular bandleader, musician, and radio personality, known as one of the great clarinetists o...
Clinton (Van Buren County)
Clinton has been the county seat of Van Buren County since 1844. Sheltered in the Little Red River valley, the...
Damascus (Van Buren and Faulkner Counties)
Damascus is a town located on U.S. Highway 65 on the county line between Faulkner and Van Buren counties. It...
Damascus CCC Camp No. 3781 Historic District
The Damascus CCC Camp Co. No. 3781 Historic District, located on Camp Hill Road in Damascus (Van Buren and Fau...
Damascus Gymnasium
The Damascus Gymnasium, located on State Highway 285 just north of the Faulkner/Van Buren County line in Damas...
Fairfield Bay (Van Buren and Cleburne Counties)
Fairfield Bay, located in north-central Arkansas on the north shore of Greers Ferry Lake, was created with the...
The Forgotten Girls
The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America, written by Clinton (Van Buren C...
Fowler Cemetery
The Fowler Cemetery is located approximately two miles east of Damascus, along the southeastern border of Van ...
William Erwin Halbrook (1878–1974)
William Erwin Halbrook was a prominent educator and education reformer in Arkansas during the first half of th...
Will H. Hardin (Lynching of)
Will H. Hardin was murdered in his jail cell in Clinton (Van Buren County) on April 17, 1899, after his death ...
Sturgis Williford Holmes Jr. (1936–1992)
Sturgis Williford Holmes Jr. was a famous Arkansas folk artist who specialized in the medium of paint-by-numbe...
Sue Kidd (1933–2017)
Sue Kidd was a female baseball star who gained local fame for the athletic prowess she displayed while playing...
National Championship Chuckwagon Races
The National Championship Chuckwagon Race is held every Labor Day weekend at Dan and Peggy Eoff’s ranch in C...
William Newman (Execution of)
William Newman was hanged at Clinton (Van Buren County) on November 8, 1895, for murdering his wife, though he...
Monica Potts (1979–)
Arkansas native Monica Potts is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Fo...
Shirley (Van Buren County)
The town of Shirley rests on the Middle Fork of the Little Red River in northeastern Van Buren County. Establi...
South Fork Nature Center
South Fork Nature Center (SFNC), which opened in 2010, is the Gates Rogers Foundation’s premier conservancy ...
South Side High School Sign
The South Side High School Sign, located on the grounds of the South Side Bee Branch School District complex i...
Terror at Black Falls
Produced, written, directed, and edited by Richard C. Sarafian, Terror at Black Falls was filmed in Arkansas i...
Titan II Missile Explosion (1980)
The Titan II Launch Complex 374-7 in Southside (Van Buren County), just north of Damascus (Van Buren and Faulk...
Titan II Missiles
Following the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first thermonuclear bomb in 1953, the United States began act...
United States v. Waddell et al.
United States v. Waddell et al. is a U.S. Supreme Court case that arose from an 1883 incident of nightriding (...
USS Van Buren (PF-42)
The USS Van Buren was a Tacoma-class patrol frigate launched in 1944 that served in the New Guinea campaign in...
Van Buren County
Formed in 1833, Van Buren became the twenty-ninth county in Arkansas Territory and preceded statehood by three...
Van Buren County Courthouse
The Van Buren County Courthouse in Clinton (Van Buren County) is situated in the hilly terrain of northern Ark...
Van Buren County Historical Society
The Van Buren County Historical Society, headquartered in Clinton (Van Buren County), was organized on April 2...
Van Buren County Lynching of 1894
In early February 1894, three white men—Robert Plunkett, Charles Plunkett, and Henry Bruce—were lynched in...
Van Buren County Road 2E Bridge
The Van Buren County 2E Bridge is an open masonry substructure bridge crossing a tributary of Driver’s Creek...
John Louis Ward (1930–2012)
John Louis Ward was an author, editor, journalist, teacher, and political operative from Arkansas. In addition...
Allen Rufus (A. R.) Witt (1830–1903)
Allen Rufus (A. R.) Witt was a politician and Confederate colonel who served in infantry and irregular cavalry...