Entry Category: Logan

Small town street scene with a gas station on one side and trees on the other

Morrison Bluff Street Scene

Small town street scene with businesses and trees and signs

Morrison Bluff Street Scene

Mount Magazine

Mount Magazine WMA

Old Union Cemetery

Multistory building with clock tower and stone monument with flag pole and trees in its front yard

Ouachita County Courthouse

Paris (Logan County)

Paris, located in north-central Logan County, is one of the county’s two seats. The other county seat, Booneville, is located in the southern part of the county. Built around the courthouse square, Paris is economically supported by agricultural activity, retail business enterprises, and small industries. One of the town’s attractions is the Logan County Museum, located in the old county jail. The museum is dedicated to preservation of the history of Logan County. Tourism related to Mount Magazine, located seventeen miles south of Paris, also has benefited the town. Reconstruction through the Gilded Age When the legislature created Logan County as Sarber County in 1871, naming it after noted “carpetbagger” John Newton Sarber, Paris did not exist. The act creating …

Bird's-eye view of town and countryside labeled "Paris Arkansas"

Paris Fire Department

Multistory blond brick post office building with flagpole

Metal cylinder on tall legs and "Paris" painted on the side with trees in foreground

Paris Water Tower

Group of men inside store lined with cabinets

Parish and Ross Drugstore

Country road entering small town with trees and brush on one side and buildings on the other

Entering Prairie View

Entering Ratcliff

Ratcliff (Logan County)

Halfway between Paris (Logan County) and Charleston (Franklin County) on Highway 22, Ratcliff in Logan County has 202 residents as of the 2010 census. The area that is now northwestern Logan County was sparsely populated prior to the Civil War. Alexander Kannady and Jerry Nunnellee filed papers in Clarksville (Johnson County) in 1861 claiming ownership of the land; Nunnellee is said to have operated a plantation in that area for many years prior to this claim. Early in the 1870s, the area became an attraction due to five natural springs of mineral water that were thought to have healing benefits. Stone pavilions sheltered three of the five springs for the comfort of visitors, and a community called National Springs came into existence. …

Single story blond brick post office building with flagpole flying American and P.O.W. flags

Ratcliff Post Office

Ratcliff Street Scene

Savage Theater

Entering Scranton

Scranton (Logan County)

Investors seeking to profit from coal mining established the city of Scranton in Logan County early in the twentieth century. Although the nearby coal mines did not prove to be profitable, Scranton survived and flourished, becoming for a time one of the largest cities in Logan County. James Murphey was the first owner of the land on which Scranton would be built. His deed to the land was registered in 1838, and Murphey bought additional land adjacent to his first lot in 1839 and in 1843. It remained farmland until 1907, when Harmon Remmel led a group of investors to purchase land in Logan County for a city that would be a center of mining operations. They named their city for …

Single story orange brick buildings with ramps and columns

Scranton Administration

Man with beard and hat in orchard spraying small trees

Scranton Nursery

Single story red brick post office building with parking lot

Scranton Post Office

Single and multistory orange brick buildings with a covered front sidewalk to the street

Scranton Schools

Small town street scene with businesses and traffic

Scranton Street Scene

Large group of students and teachers in front of school building

Shoal Creek School

Multistory ornate stone church building with spire surrounded by trees

St. Ignatius Catholic Church

Multistory white wooden church building with parking lot

St. Meinrad Catholic Church

Cemetery with graves and a gate with a stone archway

Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Cemetery

Multistory red brick church building with spires and tree

Sts. Peter & Paul Catholic Church

Concrete datestone saying in Latin "Eglesia St. Petri-Paul 1917"

Sts. Peter & Paul Church Datestone

Subiaco (Logan County)

The Logan County town of Subiaco, midway between Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and Russellville (Pope County), straddles Highway 22, a major connecting roadway for the western Arkansas counties immediately south of the Arkansas River. The town takes its name from the nearby Subiaco Abbey, itself named for the Italian town where a Benedictine order originated in 1878. The town, granted a post office in 1910, formed when the railroad reached the area in June 1909. Although the railroad ceased operation in 1949, the town of Subiaco remains and continues to provide services to area residents, as well as to travelers and visitors to Subiaco Abbey and Academy. Construction of the Military Road from Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Fort Smith …