39th Brigade Support Battalion
Entry Category: Prairie
39th Brigade Support Battalion
American Legion Hut
Bethel House
Bedford Brown Bethell House
Biscoe (Prairie County)
aka: Fredonia (Prairie County)
Biscoe, also known as Fredonia, is located on Surrounded Hill between the White River and the Cache River in eastern Prairie County. It is on U.S. Highway 70 a few miles east of DeValls Bluff (Prairie County). Surrounded Hill was surveyed by the federal government in 1849. Edwin Burr was the first settler to claim title to the land, registering his deed in Batesville (Independence County) in 1853. The area remained relatively unpopulated through the Civil War but gained significance with construction of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, which was completed through the Surrounded Hill area in 1871. A depot was built on flat land near the hill, and a post office was established in 1872 with the name …
Button Factory
Constitutional Union
Des Arc (Prairie County)
Des Arc is one of two county seats serving Prairie County. It was one of the earliest settlements in eastern Arkansas as well as an important shipping point for lumber and agricultural goods. Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood Des Arc was the earliest settlement in Prairie County, taking its name from the Bayou des Arc two miles north of city; the bayou’s name is derived from a French term meaning “bow” or “curve.” Francis Francure, a Frenchman, was reportedly one of the first settlers in the area, testifying, upon receipt of a Spanish land grant, that he had lived on the land since 1789. Goodspeed’s history of the area credits as the first residents two Creoles named Watts and East, …
Des Arc Bridge
Des Arc Citizen
Des Arc Flood
Des Arc High School
Des Arc Library
Des Arc Park
Des Arc Post Office
Des Arc Schools
Des Arc Street Scene
Des Arc Street Scene
Des Arc Street Scene
Des Arc Water Tower
DeValls Bluff
DeValls Bluff Steamboat
DeValls Bluff (Prairie County)
DeValls Bluff, in east-central Prairie County, is located on the White River and Highway 70. It is the county seat for the southern district of Prairie County. Excluding Helena (Phillips County), no other town in eastern Arkansas held such strategic importance to the Union army during the Civil War as did DeValls Bluff. Jacob M. DeVall and his son, Chappel S., were apparently the first white settlers in the area. They first appear on Prairie County tax records in 1851. Post office department records indicate the town was named for Jacob. Chappel S. DeVall had a mercantile operation with a warehouse and home on the White River (now White River basin) in 1849. At the beginning of the Civil War, …
DeValls Bluff Depot
DeValls Bluff Street Scene
DeValls Bluff Street Scene
Entering Childers Corner
Entering Des Arc
Entering Jasmine
Frith-Plunkett House
Grand Prairie Water Tower
Hazen
Hazen (Prairie County)
Hazen is located near the center of Prairie County, approximately forty-three miles directly east of Little Rock (Pulaski County) on Highway 70 and Interstate 40. It is in the northern part of the Grand Prairie, land once thought good only for growing prairie hay and wild animals. Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood The town is named for Dr. William Cogswell Hazen, who came to the area from Covington, Tennessee, with his family and twenty-one slaves in 1854. He settled in a spot 1.3 miles north of present-day Highway 70 and one mile west of Highway 63, in a place where the prairie ends. Hazen persuaded family friend the Reverend John W. Hudson to come with them. Hudson settled three miles …
Hazen City Park
Hazen Community Center
Hazen Creamery
Hazen Fire Department
Hazen Park
Hazen Post Office
Hazen Post Office
Hazen Rice Elevator
Hazen Rice Plant
Hazen Scene
Hazen Street Scene
Hazen Street Scene
Hazen Street Scene
Hazen Street Scene
Hazen Street Scene
Hazen View
Lake Des Arc
