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It is the fourth-largest county by area in Arkansas. [1] The county is located approximately 112 miles (180 km) east of Tulsa, Oklahoma, 192 miles (309 km) northwest of Little Rock, 233 miles (375 km) south of Kansas City, and 335 miles (539 km) northeast of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Blake Wintory is a historian and author who served as the on-site director at the Lakeport Plantation from 2008-2018. He wrote a book on Chicot County (Chicot County (2015), Arcadia Publishing, part of the Images of America series) and has written about African American legislators in Arkansas during and after the Reconstruction era.
Sam's Throne is a hard sandstone rock climbing area in the Boston Mountains of north central Arkansas, in the Ozark - St. Francis National Forest. [1] [2] Among its attractions for serious rock climbers is the Chickenhead Wall formation. The area is extensively described in the guide Arkansas Rock Volume 1 by Clay Frisbie (Boston Mountain Press).
The Sam Epstein House is a historic house at 488 Lakeshore Drive in Lake Village, Arkansas.The Colonial Revival house is notable for its association with Sam Epstein, a Jewish immigrant who was one of Lake Village's first shopkeepers, and eventually amassed more than 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) of land in Chicot County devoted to agricultural purposes.
As a matter of interest, here is the oath sworn to by the Ashley County Home Guard when they were enlisted on November 4, 1863, at Hamburg. The following was transcribed from the original manuscript held by the Arkansas History Commission, with the original spelling and punctuation intact: [177]
Corning is a city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 3,377 at the 2010 census. [3] ... Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture entry: ...
Sam Faubus disapproved of Orval's actions during the integration crisis and privately conveyed his position to him. Unbeknownst to his son, he wrote letters in support of desegregation to the Arkansas Gazette signed by a pseudonym , Jimmie Higgins , which was the Socialist Party slang for a novice member. [ 3 ]
The Sam Marshall House is a historic house in rural Searcy County, Arkansas. It is located southeast of Morning Star, on the west side of County Road 163. It is a single-story log structure, rectangular in plan, with a roof whose front gable extends over a porch supported by square columns. The logs were apparently hand-hewn, and joined by ...