August 1, 1876

Lycurgus Leonidas Johnson died. Johnson was heir to Lakeport Plantation (Chicot County), which was established in 1831. Johnson’s father, Joel, was the scion of a wealthy and prestigious Kentucky family. Johnson’s Lakeport Plantation House, built on property acquired and expanded after his family settled in Arkansas, is the state’s grandest example of antebellum Greek Revival architecture and was the showplace of the state’s “cotton aristocracy.”