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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...
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Henry McMillan Alexander (1905–1969)
Henry McMillan Alexander brought the city manager plan to Arkansas and served as an adviser to many state agen...
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Lance Dwight "Bambi" Alworth (1940–)
An All-American football player at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1961...
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Angus McLeod House
The Angus McLeod House, once located at 912 North 13th Street in Fort Smith (Sebastian County), was built in 1...
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The Annunciation
Ellen Gilchrist’s first novel, The Annunciation, was published by Little, Brown in 1983. It followed her fir...
People picking "Ozark apples" on "W. E. Brown's Farm" in Rogers
Apple Industry
Seventy-five years after their introduction in Arkansas, apples became a dominant agricultural crop and an eco...
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Jack Appleby (1907–1974)
aka: John Tate Appleby
Arkansas native John Tate (Jack) Appleby was a biographer of Englis...
airplane hangar labeled "Drake Field Fayetteville" with military airplane and helicopter
Arkansas Air and Military Museum
With the mission statement “Promoting Aviation by Preserving the Past,” the Arkansas Air Museum in Fayette...
three white women on float decorated with flowers with "Pea Ridge Heart of the Ozarks" on the side
Arkansas Apple Festival
The Arkansas Apple Festival in Lincoln (Washington County), held the first weekend of October, has been a feat...
many white people stand around and in square shaped holes in the ground with white marquee tents providing some shade
Arkansas Archeological Society
The Arkansas Archeological Society (AAS) is a statewide organization created for the purpose of uniting all pe...
Hand-blown glass bluebird display on thin shelves outdoors with forest and mountains in background
Arkansas Bluebird of Happiness
aka: Bluebird of Happiness
The original Arkansas Bluebird of Happiness was created by Leo Ward...
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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...
white wooden building with sign reading "Arkansas Country Doctor Museum"
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...
Alfred W. Arrington (1810–1867)
The colorful and often controversial Alfred W. Arrington was an attorney, minister, and Arkansas state legisla...
Richard Bernard Atkinson (1946–2005)
Richard B. Atkinson was the tenth dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville (Washington...
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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...
Memorial with crucifix and Jesus figure over tile base with plaque and wrought iron detailed floral columns
Pietro Bandini (1852–1917)
Father Pietro Bandini, a Roman Catholic priest, is most widely remembered in Arkansas for the 1898 founding of...
white man in old-fashioned football uniform "Capt. Barnhill."
John Henry "Barnie" Barnhill (1903–1973)
John Henry Barnhill was a successful head football coach both at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and ...
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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...
White man wavy medium length hair and mustache from torso up dressed in suit and bow tie handwritten inscription "Very Truly Yours A. W. Bishop A. G. of Arkansas"
Albert W. Bishop (1832–1901)
Albert W. Bishop served in Arkansas as an officer of the Union army during the Civil War and wrote two books d...
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...
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Marlon Matthew Blackwell (1956–)
Marlon Matthew Blackwell is a professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Wa...
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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...
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Lisa Suzanne Blount (1957–2010)
Lisa Blount was an actress who appeared in numerous films and television shows, most notably as Lynette Pomero...