Washington County

Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins (1884–1973)
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, ...
Sarah Edith Sonneman Agee (1946–)
Sarah Agee of Prairie Grove (Washington County) served as a state representative in the Eighty-second, E...
Henry McMillan Alexander (1905–1969)
Henry McMillan Alexander brought the city manager plan to Arkansas and served as an adviser to many state agen...
Lance Dwight "Bambi" Alworth (1940–)
An All-American football player at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1961...
Angus McLeod House
The Angus McLeod House, once located at 912 North 13th Street in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), was built in 1...
The Annunciation
Ellen Gilchrist’s first novel, The Annunciation, was published by Little, Brown in 1983. It followed her fir...
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
Arkansas Air Museum
“Promoting Aviation by Preserving the Past” is the mission statement of the Arkansas Air Museum in Fayette...
Arkansas Apple Festival
The Arkansas Apple Festival in Lincoln (Washington County), held the first weekend of October, has been a feat...
Arkansas Archeological Society
The Arkansas Archeological Society (AAS) is a statewide organization created for the purpose of uniting all pe...
Arkansas Bluebird of Happiness
aka: Bluebird of Happiness
The original Arkansas Bluebird of Happiness was created by Leo Ward...
Arkansas College
Arkansas College was founded in Fayetteville (Washington County) in late 1850 by pastor Robert Graham of the D...
Arkansas Committee
In the spring of 1990, Mark Swaney, a graduate student in engineering at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fa...
Arkansas Country Doctor Museum (ACDM)
The Arkansas Country Doctor Museum (ACDM) in Lincoln (Washington County), in rural northwest Arkansas, is loca...
Arkansas Entomological Society
The Arkansas Entomological Society (AES) was founded in May 1991 by entomology educators, researchers, and ind...
Arkansas Law Review
The Arkansas Law Review is a student-edited law journal that publishes scholarly articles on state and nationa...
Richard Bernard Atkinson (1946–2005)
Richard B. Atkinson was the tenth dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville (Washington...
William J. Baerg (1885–1980)
William J. Baerg was a naturalist, entomologist, and teacher who served as head of the Department of Entomolog...
Virgil Lyle Baker (1896–1974)
Virgil Lyle Baker was an author, playwright, director, and educator who served as a faculty member and departm...
George Pool Ballard (1882–1951)
George Pool Ballard published poems in newspapers in Fayetteville (Washington County) as well as a poetry coll...
Pietro Bandini (1852–1917)
Father Pietro Bandini, a Roman Catholic priest, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of...
John Henry "Barnie" Barnhill (1903–1973)
John Henry Barnhill was a successful head football coach both at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and ...
Beely-Johnson Post 139 American Legion Hut
Located in downtown Springdale (Washington and Benton counties), the Beely-Johnson Post 139 American Legion Hu...
Hugo Francis Bezdek (1884–1952)
As head coach of the football team at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County), Hug...
Black Americans for Democracy (BAD)
aka: Students Taking a New Direction (STAND)
aka: Black Students Association (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
The Black Americans for Democracy (BAD) was a group organized by Af...
Marlon Matthew Blackwell (1956–)
Marlon Matthew Blackwell is a professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Wa...
Diane Blair (1938–2000)
Diane Frances Divers Kincaid Blair was a nationally respected educator, writer, speaker, political scientist, ...
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...
Lisa Suzanne Blount (1957–2010)
Lisa Blount was an actress who appeared in numerous films and television shows, most notably as Lynette Pomero...
The Blue and the Gray [TV miniseries]
The Blue and the Gray was a three-part television miniseries that was filmed primarily in northwestern Arkansa...
Bob (Lynching of)
Bob (no last name recorded) was a formerly enslaved African American man who attempted to encourage a slave re...