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Location of Conway County in Arkansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Conway County, Arkansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Conway County, Arkansas, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
English: Conway Cemetery This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America . Its reference number is 77000259 .
The Arkansas General Assembly established the Arkansas History Commission through the Act of 1905 signed by Governor Jeff Davis on April 27. [2] Aligned with Department of Parks and Tourism since 1971, it was transferred to the Department of Arkansas Heritage on July 1, 2016, and renamed Arkansas State Archives. [3]
Oak Grove Cemetery is the oldest cemetery of the city of Conway, Arkansas. It was established in 1880, five years after the town was incorporated and nine after its first settlement. The cemetery is in active use, with more than 3,000 burials. Among the interred are many of the city's earliest and most prominent citizens. [2]
Conway Cemetery Historic State Park, officially the Conway Cemetery State Park, is the final resting place of James S. Conway, first governor of Arkansas, and his wife, Mary J. Conway. It is a 11.5-acre (0.047 km 2) Arkansas state park in Lafayette County. No recreational or visitors' amenities are available at the state park.
The company said that its physical archives, which are stored on higher ground, were not damaged. [9] NewspaperArchive claims as of 30 June 2018 that it has online newspapers dating from 1607 worldwide and its index includes 9,829 newspapers. [10] In 2020, Heritage Microfilm acquired World Archives, the parent company of NewspaperArchive.
James Sevier Conway was born on December 4, 1796, in Greene County, Tennessee, to Thomas and Ann (née Rector) Conway. Conway's father was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, in 1771. [1] His paternal ancestors originated in Conwy, Wales. [2] Among Conway’s siblings were politicians Elias N Conway, William B Conway and Henry W Conway.
Conway County is within the Arkansas River Valley region, a fertile, low-lying valley along the Arkansas River between the Ozark Mountains to the north and the Ouachita Mountains to the south. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 567 square miles (1,470 km 2 ), of which 552 square miles (1,430 km 2 ) is land and ...