Back Yonder, An Ozark Chronicle, published in 1932, is the autobiography of Charles Wayman Hogue (1870–1965)...

Opie Cates was a popular bandleader, musician, and radio personality, known as one of the great clarinetists o...

Clinton has been the county seat of Van Buren County since 1844. Sheltered in the Little Red River valley, the...

Damascus is a town located on U.S. Highway 65 on the county line between Faulkner and Van Buren counties. It...

The Damascus CCC Camp Co. No. 3781 Historic District, located on Camp Hill Road in Damascus (Van Buren and Fau...

The Damascus Gymnasium, located on State Highway 285 just north of the Faulkner/Van Buren County line in Damas...

Fairfield Bay, located in north-central Arkansas on the north shore of Greers Ferry Lake, was created with the...

The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America, written by Clinton (Van Buren C...

The Fowler Cemetery is located approximately two miles east of Damascus, along the southeastern border of Van ...

William Erwin Halbrook was a prominent educator and education reformer in Arkansas during the first half of th...

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. was a famous Arkansas folk artist who specialized in the medium of paint-by-numbe...

Sue Kidd was a female baseball star who gained local fame for the athletic prowess she displayed while playing...

The National Championship Chuckwagon Race is held every Labor Day weekend at Dan and Peggy Eoff’s ranch in C...

William Newman was hanged at Clinton (Van Buren County) on November 8, 1895, for murdering his wife, though he...

Arkansas native Monica Potts is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Fo...

The town of Shirley rests on the Middle Fork of the Little Red River in northeastern Van Buren County. Establi...

South Fork Nature Center (SFNC), which opened in 2010, is the Gates Rogers Foundation’s premier conservancy ...

The South Side High School Sign, located on the grounds of the South Side Bee Branch School District complex i...

Produced, written, directed, and edited by Richard C. Sarafian, Terror at Black Falls was filmed in Arkansas i...

The Titan II Launch Complex 374-7 in Southside (Van Buren County), just north of Damascus (Van Buren and Faulk...

Following the Soviet Union’s detonation of its first thermonuclear bomb in 1953, the United States began act...

United States v. Waddell et al. is a U.S. Supreme Court case that arose from an 1883 incident of nightriding (...

The USS Van Buren was a Tacoma-class patrol frigate launched in 1944 that served in the New Guinea campaign in...

Formed in 1833, Van Buren became the twenty-ninth county in Arkansas Territory and preceded statehood by three...

The Van Buren County Courthouse in Clinton (Van Buren County) is situated in the hilly terrain of northern Ark...

The Van Buren County Historical Society, headquartered in Clinton (Van Buren County), was organized on April 2...

In early February 1894, three white men—Robert Plunkett, Charles Plunkett, and Henry Bruce—were lynched in...

The Van Buren County 2E Bridge is an open masonry substructure bridge crossing a tributary of Driver’s Creek...

John Louis Ward was an author, editor, journalist, teacher, and political operative from Arkansas. In addition...

Allen Rufus (A. R.) Witt was a politician and Confederate colonel who served in infantry and irregular cavalry...