Businesses

Acme Brick Company
Acme Brick Company began operation in 1891 and is now the largest American-owned brick and masonry manufacture...
Acxiom
The consumer data marketing company Acxiom began in Conway (Faulkner County) in the late 1960s as Demographics...
Albert Pike Hotel
The Albert Pike Hotel in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) opened in 1929 and was one of the state’s bes...
Allens, Inc.
aka: Allen Canning Company
aka: Sager Creek Vegetable Company
Allens, Inc., began canning vegetables at Siloam Springs (Benton Co...
Alltel
Alltel Corporation, a wireless communications company, began as a technical service provider to small-town Ark...
Anthony Timberlands, Inc.
Formed by John Ed Anthony in 1974, Anthony Timberlands, Inc. (ATI) operates five mills in southern Arkansas an...
Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad
The Arkansas and Oklahoma Western Railroad (A&OW), based in Rogers (Benton County), was incorporated on Ju...
Arkansas Business Publishing Group
Arkansas Business, a weekly newspaper and website based in Little Rock (Pulaski County), is the leading source...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state’s largest newspaper, is based in Little Rock (Pulaski County), with...
Arkansas Gazette
The Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas’s first newspaper, was established in 1819, seventeen years before Arkansas b...
Arkansas Nuclear One
The Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) power plant, located a few miles west of Russellville (Pope County), is the sta...
Arkansas Power and Light (AP&L)
The Arkansas Power and Light Company (AP&L) was the primary electrical utility company for much of Arkansa...
Arkansas Real Estate Bank
In 1836, the establishment of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas became the initial act to pass the first state ...
Arkansas State Bank
The Arkansas State Bank (1836–1843) was one of two banks created by the newly formed Arkansas state legislat...
Arkansas Times
The Arkansas Times is a widely read free periodical known for its liberal political stance as well as being an...
Arlington Hotel
The Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs (Garland County) was built at the dawn of the city’s golden era as a reso...
Atkins Pickle Company
Atkins Pickle Company was the major industry in the town of Atkins (Pope County) for more than fifty years, an...
August House
August House, a commercial book publisher founded and run by Arkansans, was a fixture on the national scene fo...
Bank of Osceola
The Bank of Osceola is a two-story brick structure located in Osceola (Mississippi County) at 207–209 East H...
Bank OZK
Bank OZK grew from a small-town bank in Ozark (Franklin County) to have offices in ten states by 2019, also be...
Barlow Hotel
The Barlow Hotel at 102 South Elm Street in Hope (Hempstead County) was, for more than seventy-five years, the...
Batesville Daily Guard
The Batesville Daily Guard has been published continuously since 1877, the only Batesville (Independence Count...
Bauxite and Northern Railroad
The Bauxite and Northern Railroad (B&N) is a short, three-mile railway built in 1906 by a subsidiary of Al...
Baxter Bulletin
The Baxter Bulletin newspaper was established in 1901 in Mountain Home (Baxter County) by J. G. “Uncle Jess...
Bellaire Court Historic District
The Bellaire Court Historic District is a tourist court in Hot Springs (Garland County). Constructed in 1936, ...
Bruno’s Little Italy
Bruno’s Little Italy in Little Rock (Pulaski County) is one of the most well-known restaurants in central Ar...
Burns Gables
Burns Gables was a popular restaurant, gift shop, and lodge that operated on Mount Gayler (Crawford County) fo...
Butchie's Drive-In
What was originally called Butchie’s Drive-In is a small restaurant located on Park Avenue in Hot Springs (G...
Butterfield's Overland Mail Company
aka: Overland Mail Company
Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company carried the first success...
Caddo River Lumber Company
Caddo River Lumber Company was one of the largest lumber companies operating in the Ouachita Mountains during ...
Cairo and Fulton Railroad
Today’s Union Pacific Railroad line from the Missouri state line through Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Tex...
Camark Pottery
Founded in 1926, Camden Art Tile and Pottery Company was the third and last producer of Art Pottery in Arkansa...