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Greenwood was founded in 1851 when its location was selected for the first county seat of Sebastian County. The town was named for Judge Alfred Burton Greenwood. Judge Greenwood had been elected the previous year to serve as Circuit Judge over ten Northwest Arkansas counties. The first court house was a log structure, replaced in 1865 by a ...
The Old Sebastian County Jail is a historic former jail in Greenwood, Arkansas. It is a two-story stone building, located just east of the Sebastian County Courthouse on the south side of Arkansas Highway 10 in the city center. It was built 1889-91 by Ike Kunkel, a local master mason, and is one of the city's finest examples of cut stone masonry.
Sebastian County, Arkansas. / 35.5942°N 94.2581°W / 35.5942; -94.2581. Sebastian County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 127,799, [ 1] making it the fourth-most populous county in Arkansas. The county has two county seats, Greenwood and Fort Smith. [ 2]
There are 60 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, one of which, the Fort Smith National Historic Site, is also a National Historic Landmark District. Another 7 properties were once listed but have been removed. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 12, 2024. [2]
The Sebastian County Courthouse/Fort Smith City Hall is a historic civic building at 100 South 6th Street in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It is a large four-story stone and concrete structure with modest Art Deco styling, designed by Fort Smith architects E. Chester Nelson, T. E. Bassham, and Carnall Wheeler [2] and built in 1937 with funding from the ...
North Sebastian County Courthouse, Fort Smith City Hall Sebastian County 35°23′8″N 94°25′34″W / 35.38556°N 94.42611°W / 35.38556; -94.42611 ( Sebastian County Courthouse-Northern
August 10, 2024 at 4:00 AM. Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted, then murdered on her way to an Arkansas bowling alley to surprise her mother in December 1994. Nearly 30 years later, her ...
Fort Smith is the third-most populous city in Arkansas, United States, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 89,142. [5]