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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.
Perry’s Funeral Chapel, known for many years as Rumph Mortuary, is a historic commercial building at 312 West Oak Street in El Dorado, Arkansas.Built in 1927, it is a two-story red brick building, with a three-bay facade topped by a crenellated Gothic parapet.
The Lee County Courthouse in located in the town of Marianna, [17] which is the county seat. [ 3 ] Since World War II, Lee County has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in all but two elections: 1948, when it voted for third-party Strom Thurmond rather than for Harry Truman, and in 1972, when formerly Democratic voters crossed ...
It was designed by Durward F. Kyle, and built in 1929 with funding from the city and the state's Military Department, to house the regimental headquarters of the 206th Coastal Artillery Regiment. Over the following decades it was home to a number of Arkansas National Guard units, which moved to new facilities in 1980.
He was the second African-American to serve in the Arkansas Senate during the 20th century. Lewellen was one of two African-American lawyers in Lee County, Arkansas, and served as the attorney for the Lake View School District. He lived in Marianna and served as city councillor until 1990, when he was first elected to the Arkansas Senate. He ...
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.
Nancy Duffy Blount is a former coroner and state legislator in Arkansas. She served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010. [1] She lived in Marianna, Arkansas. She is a Democrat. [2] She served as coroner in Lee County, Arkansas for eight years. [3]