The Winthrop school museum is located in the two-story brick house building in the middle of Winthrop, AR in the former high school. The town of Winthrop is located in the Little River County in the...
The Winthrop school museum is located in the two-story brick house building in the middle of Winthrop, AR in the former high school. The town of Winthrop is located in the Little River County in the...
When the Hovell family moved to his present home in 1905, the surrounding country was much more thickly populated than it is now. Nearly every 160 acres, now owned by the National Forest and by...
In 1915 the small town of Bates, Arkansas started construction on a new elementary school. The finished design was a two-story red-brick building with a stone framed foundation. Windows were...
Background Contrary to common belief, the education of many southern African Americans took place on southern plantations while many were slaves. Some masters allowed a few of their slaves to become...
Pine Bluff’s first public school was on the same site in the 1800’s. Many Pine Bluff locals think that Sixth Avenue was the original building, however it was not. The first building was...
Originally named Calf Creek, the town of Snowball, Arkansas was founded in the early 1800s. After the entire downtown area was destroyed by a steam engine explosion in 1879, a newly built Masonic...
The Gabe Elementary Meyer school was built in 1921 on West 23rd Avenue and Linden Street on land purchased by the school board in 1913 at the urging of board member Gabe Meyer. Because of Meyers...
Built in an era before computers, television, and even air conditioning, the Carden Bottoms school house was no doubt the center of the entire community that used to exist all around it and the pride...
In 1879, the Arkansas Medical Society began trying to convince the legislature to create a State Board of Health. In 1881, the legislature finally saw the wisdom of creating a state board to monitor...
Entire communities come and go and, like the people that we simply meet passing us on the street, they frequently leave very little to mark their passing. While some communities last for a mere span...
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