Woodruff County

Jesse Walter Arbor (1914–2000)
Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Arkansas native Jesse Walter Arbor became one of the first thirt...
Augusta (Woodruff County)
Augusta, located on the east bank of the White River, has been the county seat of two counties, first Jackson ...
Augusta Expedition (December 7–8, 1864)
Fearing that several Confederate guerrillas and partisan bands were operating in northeastern Arkansas, Brigad...
Augusta Expedition (January 4–27, 1865)
In an effort to continue to conduct expeditions into northeastern Arkansas to disrupt Confederate and guerrill...
Skirmish at Augusta
Attempting to locate and destroy Confederate brigadier general Joseph Shelby somewhere in the Little Red River...
Anita Blackmon (1892–1943)
aka: Anita Blackmon Smith
Anita Blackmon Smith was a prolific mystery author who wrote more t...
Greg Alan Brownderville (1976–)
Arkansas poet Greg Alan Brownderville has published three award-winning books of poetry and folklore and creat...
William Bunch (1902–1941)
aka: Peetie Wheatstraw
William Bunch, known as “Peetie Wheatstraw,” was raised in Cott...
Gilbert Georgie Collier (1930–1953)
Gilbert Georgie Collier was an Arkansas-born soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his actions in trying...
Cotton Plant (Woodruff County)
Cotton Plant, once the cultural center of Woodruff County, is in a rich cotton-producing area. Though the popu...
Cotton Plant Academy
Cotton Plant Academy, located in Cotton Plant (Woodruff County), was a co-educational boarding school operated...
Cotton Plant Water Tower
The Cotton Plant Water Tower, located at the corner of North Main and North Vine streets in Cotton Plant (Wood...
Affairs at Cotton Plant
The Affairs at Cotton Plant are two separate events that took place on successive days near the town of Cotton...
Arthur Dean (Lynching of)
On September 9, 1911, a twenty-three-year-old African-American man named Arthur Dean was lynched in Augusta (W...
Fitzhugh (Woodruff County)
Fitzhugh (Woodruff County) is a community six miles northeast of the county seat of Augusta (Woodruff County)....
Fitzhugh Snapp Company
Located six miles north of Augusta (Woodruff County) at the junction of County Roads 140 and 165, the Fitzhugh...
Action at Fitzhugh's Woods
The Action of Fitzhugh’s Woods was a Civil War action fought on April 1, 1864, as Union forces ventured from...
Action at Hill's Plantation
aka: Action at Cache River
aka: Action at Cotton Plant
aka: Action at Round Hill
The major Confederate attempt to halt General Samuel Curtis’s mar...
Home News (McCrory)
Walter Wilson Raney, an enterprising newspaper publisher, is credited with helping shape McCrory (Woodruff Cou...
Hunter (Woodruff County)
Hunter of Woodruff County was a busy trading and shipping center during the late 1800s and early 1900s and att...
Ivory-billed Woodpeckers
aka: Campephilus principalis
Long believed to be extinct, the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephil...
Jess Norman Post 166 American Legion Hut
The Jess Norman Post 166 American Legion Hut, the best example in Augusta (Woodruff County) of a vernacular lo...
Jay Noal Lawhon (1919–2003)
Jay Noal Lawhon of McCrory (Woodruff County) was a star Razorback football player. He was drafted by the Phila...
Maberry (Woodruff County)
The town of Maberry in Woodruff County was founded around 1842 by early settlers George and Elizabeth Maberry ...
McCrory (Woodruff County)
McCrory is one of the many towns in northeast Arkansas that sprang up around a railroad, but the area was sett...
McCrory Waterworks
The McCrory Waterworks, located southeast of the junction of North Fakes and West Third streets in McCrory (Wo...
John William Morris (1875–1979)
John William Morris was a long-time physician in Woodruff County who practiced medicine until the age of 101. ...
Pearl Oldfield (1876–1962)
aka: Fannie Pearl Peden Oldfield
In 1929, Fannie Pearl Peden Oldfield became the first woman from Ar...
Patterson (Woodruff County)
Patterson, located in the southwestern part of Woodruff County, was once an important shipping point for the l...
Chris Pegues (Execution of)
Chris Pegues was an African American man executed at Augusta (Woodruff County) on October 9, 1885, for the mur...
Edward M. Pike (1838–1924)
Edward M. Pike was a sergeant in the Thirty-Third Illinois Infantry Regiment who received the Medal of Honor f...
Hugo and Gayne Preller
Hugo Arthur Preller (1865–1950) and Gayne Avey Preller (1874–1958) owned a floating portrait studio and tr...