Entry Category: Prairie

Sign saying "Lake Des Arc Bankfishing Area" with additional text about Arkansas Game and Fish and a maintenance tax

Lake Des Arc Sign

Single-story church building with cupola and wood siding with sign in the foreground

Lakeside Church

Single story tan metal building with a bank of reflective windows in front

Lower White River Museum State Park

Lower White River Museum State Park Display

Rural gravel road with trees and flat land

Mike Freeze WMA

Cemetery with trees and gravestones and a fence with brick columns

Oak Grove Cemetery

Multistory red brick building with clock tower and white columns with construction equipment in front

Prairie County Courthouse, Northern District

Single story red brick building with police pickup truck parked in front

Prairie County Sheriff Department

Railroad Prairie Natural Area

Complex consisting of multiple multistory metal silos

Riceland Storage

Single story white wooden building with green roof with railroad tracks in front

Rock Island Depot

Slovak (Prairie County)

Slovak (originally called Slovactown or Slovaktown), an agricultural community founded in 1894, still endures and is home to the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, who are also known as the Apostles of the Slavs. Slovak is the result of the promotional efforts aimed at encouraging immigrant settlement in Arkansas in the 1890s. Various Slovak fraternal and nationalistic organizations, such as the National Slovak Society, translated advertisements promoting the favorable agricultural areas of Arkansas into the Slovak language at presses in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois. Following such advertisements, the Slovak Colonization Company was organized in 1894 in Pittsburgh by Peter V. Rovnianek. The company bought 3,000 acres of Arkansas land for settlement in the southern portion of Prairie County. This …

Slovak Catholic Cemetery

Slovak Lutheran Cemetery

Steamboats

Steele Supply Depot

Large group of white children and adults in front of old school building

Surrounded Hill School

Two story wooden house with wrap-around covered porch

Thweatt House

Entering small town on country highway with trees and buildings on both sides

Entering Ulm

Ulm (Prairie County)

Ulm is a town in southern Prairie County, on U.S. Highway 79 between Clarendon (Monroe County) and Stuttgart (Arkansas County). Although the town is named for a city in southern Germany, the pronunciation differs from the German, with Arkansans speaking the name of the town as a two-syllable word (“Ull-im”). The Grand Prairie region of Arkansas was sparsely settled until after the Civil War. According to local tradition, German immigrants who had settled in Illinois and served in the Federal army during the Civil War were awarded land grants in Arkansas. The first veteran to view the land returned to Illinois and traded his land grant for several gallons of whiskey, but other German immigrants made the trip and chose to …