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The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff recently opened a $3 million business incubator in downtown Pine Bluff. [48] Also, a new $2 million farmers market pavilion was opened in 2010 on Lake Pine Bluff in downtown Pine Bluff. [49] Shirley Washington is the first female African American mayor. She was elected in 2016. [50]
Atkins Lake , el. 187 feet (57 ... Lake Pine Bluff , el. 194 feet (59 m) [38] Marks ... List of lakes of Jefferson County, Arkansas. Add languages ...
Pine Bluff: Demolished in May 2009 [9] 7: Dr. John Walter Parker Sr. House: September 25, 2003 (#03000947) January 26, 2018: 1405 S. Alabama St. Pine Bluff: 8: Pine Bluff Confederate Monument: Pine Bluff Confederate Monument: April 26, 1996
Lake Pine Bluff, a 500 acres (200 ha) lake in downtown Pine Bluff, was renamed as Lake Saracen in his honor in 2007. [9]A public art display in Pine Bluff includes a mural by Robert Dafford dedicated to "Quapaw Chief Saracen, rescuer of the stolen children and legendary hero of Jefferson County".
The American Civil War started in April 1861 and White Sulphur Springs became a staging and training area for troops who came into Pine Bluff to be organized into units. In late July 1861, the 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment was organized and trained at White Sulphur Springs and remained there for about a month before being shipped out to Tennessee.
St. Peter's Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in eastern Jefferson County, Arkansas. It is located east of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on the south side of Morgan Drive, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Arkansas Highway 88. The 2-acre (0.81 ha) cemetery was established in 1827, and is one of the few surviving remnants of the former community of New ...
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.
Atkins was the site of the Goldsmith Pickle Company which started producing pickled cucumbers in 1946. The town thus laid claim to be the “Pickle Capital of the World” with some 1200 acres devoted to growing cucumbers. Along the same line Atkins was the original home of the fried dill pickle, created by Bernell “Fatman” Austin. [6]