June 10, 1986

Located along State Highway 77 in Crittenden County, the town of Jericho voted to receive official incorporation. Jericho was first settled in 1848 by riverboat captain Stephen Stonewell James and his brother, John C. James, who built the town’s first gin and sawmill. The town was named after the biblical city and grew steadily in the 1880s and 1890s. As the African American population began to grow, Jericho’s white population started to decrease. In the 1920s, Jericho became home to one of the largest African American schools in the region, East Arkansas Baptist Association Academy.