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Crawford County

Crawford County is situated in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozark Mountains. The Boston Mountains on the north and the Arkansas River Valley on the south provide a diverse landscape and play an important role in the economy of the past and present. The county is centrally located within the nation, thus allowing desirable north-south and east-west transportation networks to support industrialization, manufacturing, and tourism growth.

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Popular Entries
African-American man with thick wearing a hat in checkered suit

Bass Reeves

Law Enforcement

 Young white man holding a young white woman posing with car

Bonnie and Clyde

Criminal Activities

 street signs marking the intersection of Catcher and McClure roads in front of house

Catcher Race Riot of 1923

Criminal Activities, Early Twentieth Century

 white man dressed as cowboy blowing into long, tubular musical instrument

Bazooka [Musical Instrument]

 Drawing of multistory wood frame home with small covered porch front steps and garden with red flowers

Van Buren

Crawford

 white rectangular stone with "Parley Parker Pratt" at top surrounded by black iron fence

Parley P. Pratt

Criminal Activities, Issues and Controversies

 Men standing between train and single story wooden building beside railroad tracks

Mulberry

Crawford

 White man in suit with white woman in a dress holding a child sitting beside him

James Brown Miller

Criminal Activities

 Arkansas map with red dot in Crawford County and explanation in green text

Lake Fort Smith State Park

State Parks

 White man smoking a pipe and a smiling man and woman on poster with red black and blue text

Bob Burns

Actors and Filmmakers, Radio
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Document paper "Oath of Office"

Bass Reeves Oath

 Statue of soldier on stone column with engraved pedestal on court house lawn

Van Buren Confederate Monument

 Two story brick building "Alma Drug Co." with onlookers, horse and carriage, faded "Ringling Bros" wall print

Alma Drug Store and Opera House

 two-story brick building labeled, "King Opera House"

Van Buren Opera House

 Log cabin with covered entrance and tree

Albert Pike School

 street signs marking the intersection of Catcher and McClure roads in front of house

Catcher (Crawford County)

 three-story Victorian style building with words at top reading "Crawford County Bank"

Crawford County Bank Building

 Broken tombstone with trees and fall leaves

Catcher Tombstone
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