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Jones Bar-B-Q Diner is a barbecue joint in Marianna, Arkansas, US, that has been open since at least the 1910s. According to business guide Black Business, it is believed to be the country's oldest black-owned restaurant. In 2012 it was recognized by the James Beard Foundation as an "American Classic".
The community was established by Col. Walter H. Otey in 1848, and was known as Walnut Ridge until 1852. [citation needed]Marianna hosted minor league baseball.In 1909, the Marianna Brickeys team played as members of the Class D level Northeast Arkansas League, finishing in third place in their only season of minor league play.
It is a two-story wood-frame structure, built c. 1900 for John Plummer, owner of a local hardware store who served four terms as county judge, and briefly as mayor of Marianna. The house is an excellent local example of a transitional Queen Anne-Colonial Revival structure, with a gingerbread -decorated wraparound porch, and numerous projections ...
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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be seen in a map.
The Marianna Commercial Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial heart of Marianna, Arkansas, the county seat of Lee County.It comprises two blocks of Main Street and two blocks of Poplar Street, which cross at the northwest corner of Court Square, a city park where the Gen. Robert E. Lee Monument is found, and extends south to include a few buildings on Liberty Street.
The Lee County Courthouse features two courthouse buildings constructed at 15 East Chestnut Street in Marianna, Arkansas, United States, the county seat of Lee County.The original courthouse was a wooden at the corner of Poplar and Mississippi streets built in 1873 when Marianna became the county seat of Lee County. [3]
The J. M. McClintock House is a historic house at 43 Magnolia Street in Marianna, Arkansas.It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, designed by Charles L. Thompson and built in 1912, whose Craftsman/Bungalow styling is in marked contrast to the W.S. McClintock House, a Colonial Revival structure designed by Thompson for another member of the McClintock family and built the same year.