When President Lyndon Johnson took office in 1963, he declared war on poverty. The nation’s poverty rate was...

  By 1864, much of Conway County and the surrounding area was routinely overrun by marauding bands of Con...

Located on State Highway 10 four miles northwest of Danville (Yell County), the second-class city of Bellevill...

  A short engagement in rural Yell County, this skirmish is notable for pitting Arkansas Confederate troo...

A man known only as Bryson—apparently a white man—was lynched in early June 1888, presumably in Yell Count...

Carden Bottom (also known as Carden’s Bottom or Carden Bottoms) is a rich alluvial flood plain in northeaste...

The CCC Company 749 Powder Magazine is located north of Forest Service Road 4128 and south of Briggsville in Y...

Chickalah is an unincorporated community in the northeastern portion of Yell County located on Arkansas Highwa...

Corinth is a town in Yell County, located between the cities of Danville (Yell County) and Belleville (Yell Co...

Bobby Crockett was a star wide receiver on the 1964 and 1965 University of Arkansas (UA) football teams, which...

The July 27, 1897, issue of the Arkansas Gazette carried the news of the recent murder of a white man named Cr...

John Patrick Daly has been a professional golfer on the Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) Tour since 1...

Danville, one of two county seats of Yell County (the other being Dardanelle), is situated near the center of ...

On September 8, 1883, two white men were forcibly taken by a mob from the jail at Danville (Yell County) and h...

Dardanelle, adjacent to the Arkansas River in northeast Yell County, was platted in 1847 and incorporated on J...

The Dardanelle Agriculture and Post Office is a 1938 U.S. Postal Service structure in Dardanelle (Yell County)...

The actions at Dardanelle and Ivey’s Ford were fought as Confederate troops from southwestern Arkansas teste...

The Dardanelle Confederate Monument is a commemorative sculpture erected in 1921 by the Joe Wheeler Chapter of...

On September 10, 1881, two white men—J. F. Bruce and John Taylor—were lynched in Dardanelle (Yell County) ...

The Dardanelle Pontoon Bridge was the largest pontoon bridge in existence in the United States, crossing the A...

The Capture of Dardanelle marked the opening action of Confederate Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby’s summ...

  A short and brutal clash between a Federal unit from Arkansas and Confederate irregulars operating near...

  A small engagement occurring after the Action at Devil’s Backbone, this skirmish was part of an effor...

William Ellis was a sergeant in the Third Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment who received a Medal of Honor for gallant...

William Hume “Rush” Feild Sr. was elected in the state’s first popular-vote election for circuit court. ...

Henry C. Gibson is credited with developing a box-style turkey call that eventually was called the Gibson Turk...

At age twenty-five, George Gleason left his new legal career with a prestigious Little Rock (Pulaski County) l...

Joseph Ray Gray (commonly known as Joe or J. R. Gray) was a painter, illustrator, sculptor, and graphic design...

Harkey Valley, often referred to as “Harkey’s Valley,” is a community located in Yell County between Cou...

Jesse Cleveland Hart was appointed associate justice to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1907 after the death of ...

Havana is a second-class city located on Highway 10 between the Ozark National Forest to the north and the Oua...

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge (Holla Bend NWR), located six miles south of Dardanelle (Yell County), is ...