August 11, 1994

The George Berry Washington Memorial near Earle (Crittenden County) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The monument includes a figure of a female angel, approximately five feet tall, standing atop a monolithic marble base, which in turn stands on a pair of marble blocks of graduated sizes, both of which collectively rise to a height of about six feet. The memorial is the burial place of a man born a slave who rose to become an African American social leader and one of the largest landowners in the county in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.