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People from Osceola, Arkansas (21 P) Pages in category "People from Mississippi County, Arkansas" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Mississippi County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,685. [1] There are two county seats, Blytheville and Osceola. [2] The county is named for the Mississippi River which borders the county to the east. Mississippi County is part of the First Congressional District in Arkansas.
The Nodena site is an archeological site east of Wilson, Arkansas, and northeast of Reverie, Tennessee, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States.Around 1400–1650 CE an aboriginal palisaded village existed in the Nodena area on a meander bend of the Mississippi River.
Robert Edward Lee Wilson (March 5, 1865 – September 27, 1933) was the creator and owner of Lee Wilson and Company, a group of large cotton plantations in Mississippi County, Arkansas. [1] Acquiring much of his father's former swamplands, Wilson formed a logging and farming business that would become one of the largest and most successful in ...
Arkansas County: Point Chicot on the Mississippi River: 9,538: 690.88 sq mi (1,789 km 2) Clark County: 019: Arkadelphia: Dec 15, 1818: Arkansas (1818) William Clark (1770–1838), explorer and Governor of the Missouri Territory: 21,274: 882.60 sq mi (2,286 km 2) Clay County: 021: Piggott, Corning: Mar 24, 1873
The nucleus of what became Dobbins' regiment was Maj. Francis Marion Chrisman's battalion of four companies, organized on September 28, 1862. [1] Chrisman's battalion was assigned to Parson's Cavalry Brigade, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department, from September to December 1862; after which it was reported as an unattached command in the District of Arkansas until about January 1863, when ...
The project was established by Mississippi County cotton planter and local politician William Reynolds Dyess (1894–1936), director of the Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration, who initially sought the establishment of a self-supporting agricultural community housing 800 families upon unused Mississippi Delta farmland. [6]
Osceola is a city in, and a dual county seat of, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. [4] Located along the Mississippi River within the Arkansas Delta, the settlement was founded in 1837 and incorporated in 1853. Occupying an important location on the river, the city's economy grew as steamboat traffic increased.
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